I will be closing to queries for the summer as of midnight on Friday, May 25th. Any queries received after midnight (Mountain time) on Friday will be deleted unread. If I can figure out how, I will set up an auto-response. Otherwise, this note and a revised submissions page will have to do! Enjoy your [...]
I’m still going through recent queries — I’ve responded to everything before April 21st, and most queries before May 7th — but for those of you that may still be revising, or polishing your material, I wanted to send out an early notice that I will be closing to queries for the summer, from Memorial [...]
I know my Live Blogs of my queries are usually a big hit, and since I’ve spent a good amount of time this weekend reading, I wanted to share some thoughts about some of what I saw. My fellow Colorado lit agent Sara Megibow often tweets a weekly #10Queriesin10Tweets, so think of this as a [...]
Congrats to Ryann Jansen, who won a query critique on my new client Krista Van Dolzer’s Mother. Write. Repeat blog. Without further ado, here’s Ryann’s query: Dear Ms. Unfeasible: Seventeen-year-old Audrey thinks having a hooker for a mom means her life can’t get any worse. At least, until her mom is murdered and she and [...]
I’ve been working on getting caught up on my massive query pile, and in one I read today, I came across the term “pre-published.” Now, this wasn’t the first time I’ve heard this particular phrase, but it needled my craw today. For one thing, the querying writer used this to describe themselves, as if the [...]
