Tag: writing-tips
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What My Pass Means Part 2: My Most Used Pass
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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What My Pass Means Part 1: Why Agents Use Form Responses
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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MSWL 1/22/25
This is as seen on MSWL. You can keep peeking back here at my blog to get a sense of what I’ve been reading, my taste, and any other additional information I may give. I will do my best to continue to update my MSWL as things advance and chance. I am going to try…
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Looking for a Agent? Here’s what to look for!
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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2023 Recap: Agenting
Of all the things that happened in 2023, I would say this is the biggest. Becoming an agent is something I realized that I should have tried to do sooner if I knew how much joy it would bring me, and how secure in my abilities I felt. I am so excited for this next…
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