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Hear me out….I’m taking back this hashtag, name, stereotype, WHATEVER it is. Because the #tradwife stands for traditional wife, and what you see on TikTok is ANYTHING but traditional. I first learned about #tradwives on Twitter (X) when a certain person kept showing up on my feed. They would wear silk, feather rimmed robes while
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This is my own query I used to get an agent. This was featured on TSNOTYAW Books With Hooks segment where Emmy Nordstrom Higdon critiqued it. You can listen here. Here it is: Dear Megan, Our reading interests seem similar. I also love Emily Henry, Talia Hibbert, and Taylor Jenkins Reid. I hope our interests
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A lot of advice out there calls for getting bylines to help your piece sell on sub, or help establish your brand as a writer. Even when you’re querying, having a article go viral can help garner attention of agents. I don’t know if anyone else feels exhausted at the concept of writing more or
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I’ve heard it from editors themselves, and you’ve heard it from agents. Your book needs to have a high hook (typically), which is a way to tell others what your book is about in a few sentences. This helps agents pitch to editors, and especially helps editors pitch in their meetings to try and sell
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This query example is from an author I signed and it’s currently on submission. While I changed it to make it shorter for my pitch to editors, the content was so easy to manipulate. The author made sure that I could use what was already there and tweak just a bit. Please note too: this
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I hope you all enjoyed the first sample I provided. Again, my hope is by sharing queries that work, you all can emulate the formula and learn from successful examples versus continuing to see ones that need improvement. (That’s not to say these are perfect, but they worked!). Here is another example of a query
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There are many different places where there are critiques of queries and how to improve upon them. But I wanted to take the time to gather queries that worked for me as an agent, or for someone else. I hesitate to call this a “series”, but in these posts, I will explain what the query
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If you’ve followed me on twitter (X), you’ve seen me tout the benefits of Beta Reading. For those of you new to the writing community, or my friends reading my blog (hi!), Beta reading is when you have other writerly people read you works in progress (WIPs). When I first started writing, I had read
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Not only was January the longest month ever, this month also gave me opportunities to focus on self-care in the way of bed rotting and reading. There was a lot I learned this month as I orioritized reading not only for myself, but also for agenting. First, I have primarily read manuscripts on my iPad/phone
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I feel like there could be a better name to describe the necessary way in which we, as busy humans, (and/or introverts) need to recharge. But I’ve seen it described as such, and so I wanted to share what I did on my bed rot day (spoiler, a whole lot of nothing) and why I
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