Blog Posts

  • Updates From My Slush Pile

    I open to queries soon (reminder I open the first of every month for ONE WEEK!). This month I’m a bit behind on queries more than I have in months past. Typically, I like to have a fresh slush pile– no outstanding queries and maybe a handful of fulls. But September was a BUSY month

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  • Hello querying authors, I’m here to help explain a bit about what I mean by my passes. Due to many different reasons, I’m unable to give everyone their own pass specific to their pitch package. Yes, sometimes you get something a bit more personal if I have a specific thing I can identify– those I

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  • As a querying author sometimes it seems impossible to figure out what is not working with your pitch and pages. Is it the pitch? Are the pages not working? Is this the wrong genre? There are so many questions that can come up, with little to no answer given in passes. First, agents do their

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  • June 2025 Reads

    June was a successful reading month thanks to lots of garden time and long road trips for audiobooks. Without much more to say let’s jump into one of my all time favorite reads (probably every but definitely of this year!) GWEN AND ART ARE NOT IN LOVE by Lex Croucher is voicey, has high stakes,

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  • May 2025 Reads

    May was a busy reading month. Thankfully I use audiobooks so I could give my eyes a break, because I read 4 author manuscripts, 2 of them at least 2 times! This is why I have to *love* the books I sign. Paying attention to details on a third or fourth read is easier when

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  • April 2025 Reads

    Well this post comes right after (?), in the midst of (?), around the time of discourse about writers leaving reviews on books. I want to reiterate that the point of me sharing my reads is not to RATE books. I will never give a star, and I will never speak negatively about a book

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  • Updated MSWL

    I will be posting this to manuscriptwishlist.com and my main MSWL page on my website. As well! I figure it’s time for me to update my MSWL, as I am hungry for a few new things. Especially things that are different than what I have on my list and what I just signed. Generally what

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  • March 2025 Reads

    March was a great reading month. Not only did I read a stellar manuscript that I offered on, I was on a high of reading banger after banger. A big part of the reason I read so much this month was because I utilized audio books more than ever AND I had extra time to

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  • My therapist likes to remind me I have moral OCD and think in black and white to my detriment. But some somethings are so unmovable for me I won’t change. One of them is holding strict boundaries between being an agent and being an author. What are these boundaries? Let me spell them out so

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  • February 2025 Reads

    February was a weaker personal reading month for me. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t reading though! February was a month of reading fulls, working on my own manuscript and trying to fit in pleasure reading. If you saw my Hard Truths Newsletter, you also saw that I’m pretty maxed out with trying to do All

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