Ask Daphne! About My Query LXXXVIII

We’re coming up towards the end of our two-week palooza of About My Query posts! Here’s today’s, and remember, please keep those comments coming! Dear (Agent), One day, thirteen-year-old Elena decides not to write stories during class like she normally does and instead writes that the class bully gets detention. He does a minute later. [...]

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Ask Daphne! About My Query LXXXVII

Some unforgetable shoes for T.P. — although I may have already posted them once, I can’t remember. (See what I did there?) Continuing the theme, here’s today’s About My Query post: Dear Ms. Unfeasible, A first love is hard to forget. Luckily for Liz Wagner hers moves away, but when his grandmother is diagnosed with [...]

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Ask Daphne! About My Query LXXXVI

Another day, another About My Query post! What do you think of this? Dear Ms. Testerman: Mistakes. Can’t live with them, can’t outrun them. For seventeen-year-old Emma Wrangton, life is a series of mud-splattered incidents propelled by one mistake after another. Mistake #1: Allowing her best friend, Riley, to convince her that immersing her tomboy [...]

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Ask Daphne! About My Query LXXXV

Happy Monday, all! Welcome back to another week of About My Query posts. Are your commenting fingers ready? Let’s go! Dear Daphne Unfeasible, I Closed my eyes is a completed 76,000 word urban fantasy/paranormal thriller. In it, thirty-year-old Tina Sanford is perplexed over the global phenomenon baffling the experts. Beautiful and talented women are being [...]

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Ask Daphne! About My Query LXXXIV

Because it’s Friday, I like to do things a little differently with my About My Query post. Rather than posting my thoughts first, I want YOU, my readers, to first give the author your thoughts, advice, and criticism on their query. I’ll chime in over the weekend with my comments. Why do I do this? [...]

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