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8 months ago
Queries!
If you haven't seen me around the blogosphere, blame it on the QUERY. Such a simple word, and to someone who doesn't write, it simply means a question, or an inquiry. But if you present this word to a writer, expect this:
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Luckily for me, I have my writer friends to keep me sane. And AGENT QUERY CONNECT. Seriously, you need a query critique? Get thee to their forum, now! And don't forget to pay it forward by helping others with their query. We all know that good karma is highly useful in the querying business...well, it's not to guarantee you an agent request, but to get good, constructive feedback from other writers.
Also, the fabulous and pouty-lipped Mindy McGinnis or BBC or bigblackcat97 or... (I swear this woman has a lot of names!) of Writer, Writer, Pants on Fire has a regular Saturday Slash where she grapples with your query and chops it down with a hatchet. Minus the blood and gore.
And then of course, there's Query Shark. But only go there if you have guts. Sharks like guts, right? (Alright, bad pun.)
Good luck with your querying endeavors, my good people! I'll just be right over here, tinkering with my own query. Ciao!
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- Precy Larkins
- I'm a YA writer who loves to read. Also a mom of 3. My life is crazy but always fun. :) I'm a member of The YA Club, a group blog about YA books. You can also find me blogging at: http://precylarkins.wordpress.com Represented by the lovely Julia A. Weber of J. A. Weber Literaturagentur GmbH. Thanks for stopping by! Email me: writercherie@gmail.com
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14 comments:
Best of luck with your querying. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.
Good luck, Cherie! I'll be praying for you. Keep at it, believe in yourself, and your dreams will come to you. It could be with a whisper, or they could knock down the door one day. I believe in you.
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
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I'm not going to lie, I'm totally the kid on the stairs crying. Just wait til you have to do the synopsis, too :/
Good luck! I am the crying girl. I can't write a good query to save my life. Thus the reason I am unpublished.
I'm all 3! And I gotta get back to the querying thing, but I've been sitting on it. Publishers this time, not agents. Good luck!
Ew. Querying while pregnant is the pits. Hang in there!
I used to always joke that if awards were given for "most time spent on a query," I'd have it in the bad ;o) Seriously, that thing was my nemesis!!
You're a fab writer though, so I have no doubt you'll nail it! :o) Good luck!
Okay, that was supposed to say "in the BAG" lol. Hard to believe I'm a writer . . . lol
Best of luck! I can't offer advice, but I can hold your hand :-)
Good luck with your query. I will be praying for you.
I'm quite certain the devil created queries. #evil
Oh best of luck.
Best of luck with your query! I'm no way near that stage - still working on my first draft. But thanks to your post, now I know where to go for feedback, when I'm ready.
Thank you, guys! I'm still in the process of fine-tuning the query. Querying is making my knees all a-quiver. We'll see how it goes.
Thanks again for your kind thoughts and well-wishes! I will need them. Especially when the Rs come in. Heh. And good luck to all who are in the query process as well. <3
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