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What Makes a Successful Query (according to science)
Once upon a time I was in a PhD program in linguistics. Which means I spent a lot of time doing a lot of analyses on different types of language. For one of my class projects I looked specifically at...
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How I *didn’t* get an agent
In a few months, I’ll hit the ten year anniversary of the very first query letter I ever sent. If you couldn’t guess from the title or my constant whining on Twitter, I still do not have an agent. I...
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Why I will probably be kindly asked to leave Target soon
I suppose because I am someone who talks a lot about my feelings, I get a lot of platitudes and advice on how to stop being so darn sad all the time. Sometimes this is well-meaning. Sometimes I think...
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How to Shelve a Heart Book
Can I tell you a secret? I’m not sure I believe in heart books. At least not in the sense that there’s one story that you were just born to tell. Kind of like I don’t believe in soulmates, the idea...
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Navigating Adult Romance Books as an Ace Reader
This post has been on my mind for about a year, but I’ve put it off because it felt like opening such a can of worms. With a resurgence in adult vs YA discourse on Twitter, though, as well as a recent...
View ArticleA Query Letter
I know that writing a How I Got My Agent post is a rite of passage of sorts but honestly… I haven’t particularly wanted to. I feel like I’ve talked about my experiences so much, and my How I Didn’t Get...
View ArticleHow much time does it take to query a book?
Some time ago, I got curious about how many hours I sunk into querying a book. Then, because I’m a professional data analyst, I thought “I should get some data and analyze it.” So I decided that since...
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#ShelfLuv 2024
I’m so excited to introduce #ShelfLuv, a Twitter event dedicated to celebrating the books we’ve shelved. This is a memorial for our dead books. The books that died in the query trenches. The books that...
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