Blog Posts

  • September 2024 Reads

    This month I was able to get through two audio books (yay long walks and 1.5 speed!) and I finished one book I picked up on and off throughout the summer. My first read was inspired because I have seen it on so many editor MSWL along with many comps. MY DARK VANESSA by Kate…

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  • When To Nudge an Agent

    I have been getting a lot of nudges, most of them very useful and urgent (so many offers of rep, yay!!). But I have gotten a few that compelled me to write this blog post. When you query, you send your pitch out into the abyss and wait and wait and wait. Literary agents are…

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  • Being in the query trenches is brutal. There is no sugar coating it. You are grueling over a piece of art that you put out into the world to get passed on over and over again. That’s the reality of it. Yet, there is the hope that one person will like your manuscript enough to…

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  • Red Flags in My Query Inbox

    I was inspired by an editor from Sourcebook, who came and gave a talk back in June 2024 to The Purcell Agency writers. She did a great segment on what are red flags when she’s looking at submissions and I wanted to do the same. Here are a few red flags I see in my…

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  • August 2024 Reads

    I truly am shocked I read two books this month. It was a doozy between more personal things, a full-time job ramping up for the last bit of summer, and back and forth between MI and IL. It was just a lot. But now school has started, and hopefully, I will have more to report…

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  • July 2024 Reads

    It’s funny, every month I’m like “another slow month of reading!” but this month was truly slow. First, my full time job went HARD along with some *small* life things, so I just was exhausted at the end of the day and my time was very limited outside of agenting. TBH I hardly even wrote…

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  • June 2024 Reads

    June was a great reading months. I could chalk it up to a few things, which sound like they wouldn’t be conducive to good reading….but it worked! First, I had covid. It sucked. 10/10 don’t recommend. BUT, my mind couldn’t focus on edits, or providing feedback sing my brain didn’t have gears that was clicking.…

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  • There has been a big learning curve on how I handle my time now that I’m authoring, mothering, agenting, and working my full-time job. It’s a lot. And one thing that has been the source of guilt (on two sides of the coin) has been the reason I started doing most of my things, and…

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  • Jue 2024 Reads

    Another month of little read, but I’m doing my best to pick up and complete books, rather than starting and forgetting about them. Time is precious so I want to read what keeps me engaged, but the past few months that has left me with a lot of books partially finished ( and time sent…

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  • To be clear, this is in response to the speech by that one kicker that I can never remember the name of (thought it really seems like it falls closely with Butt-Kick?). But at the end of the day, it’s not worth remembering…BUT his speech is. I also want to state here, that my husband…

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