r/PubTips 👽 greatest hit: [PubQ] UPDATE: Agent offered Zoom then disappeared https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1m0i1xf #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble" — Henry Miller ✍️ #writingcommunity

daily rejection inspiration: "I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn’t. I have drawers full ofor I did havedrawers full of rejection slips" #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying

Today's 🦈 Shark action: https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2016/10/ original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

A little gem from 📫 Slushwire: Agent Shannon Snow opened to queries at https://querytracker.net/agent/11400 Get more at https://writequeryhook.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

🤔 "Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter" — Nadine Gordimer #writingcommunity

Slushwire Week 6 - 177 alerts for writers: 👽 Reddit: 11 🦋 Bluesky: 34 📋 Critiques: 28 🕵️ Agents: 93 📬 Openings: 11 Get the Free intel writers use to beat the query trenches → writequeryhook.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

🌤️ daily quote time! "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes" — E.E. Cummings #writingcommunity

Query tips from threads - happy sunday! www.threads.com/@writequeryh... #writingcommunity #amquerying #querytips #pubtips #querytrenches

Query Shark 📖🦈 at it again: https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2008/06/ original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

One of the 👽 /writing 👽 greats: "The Physical Traits that Define Men and Women in Literature... https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/i8ztvl #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

🫡 "Writing is a calling, not a choice" — Isabel Allende #writingcommunity

Reminder - rejection is a sign of progress! "I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I’m going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box" — James Lee Burke #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying

📖 rejection file: — John Grisham, "A Time to Kill"

Today's light Query Shark reading: https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2008/05/ original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

👽 A r/PubTips}classic: [PubQ] Full rejection on someone else's book https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1kvznmn #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

Slushwire 💌 just doing its job for you: "[Discussion] How different is a published manuscript from..." https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1qrfi81 Query better at https://writequeryhook.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds" — George Eliot ✍️ #writingcommunity

r/writing 👽 greatest hit: If you can’t think of names for your characters just go to t... https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/iahrc5 #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

📚 "The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions" — Naguib Mahfouz #writingcommunity

🫖 Just a little sip of decaf rejection before bed: "A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success" — Bo Bennett #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying

a little Query Shark for ya: https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2009/05/ original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

Caught! by 📫 Slushwire: Post from @ssnow-litagent.bsky.social: https://bsky.app/profile/ssnow-litagent.bsky.social/post/3mdvbpjq34k2z Track all alerts at https://writequeryhook.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

"There is no success without hardship" — Sophocles #writingcommunity

daily rejection inspiration: "One test of a writer is his or her ability to keep rejections in perspective, even to make use of them" — Ralph Keyes #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying

r/PubTips 👽 greatest hit: [Discussion] 30 full requests…and no offer https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1m0xz94 #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

🤔 "He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope" — Edward Albee #writingcommunity

Reminder - rejection is a sign of progress! "Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections" — Brian Klemmer #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying

Today's 🦈 Shark action: https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2013/09/ original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

Picked up by 💌 Slushwire: Post from @leeannward-writer.bsky.social: https://bsky.app/profile/leeannward-writer.bsky.social/post/3mdikk4s2mc2h More writerly alert_urls at https://writequeryhook.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

"Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity" — Albert Camus #writingcommunity

Slushwire Week 5 - 164 alerts for writers: 👽 Reddit: 21 🦋 Bluesky: 44 📋 Critiques: 30 🕵️ Agents: 60 📬 Openings: 9 Get the Free intel writers use to beat the query trenches → writequeryhook.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

🫖 Just a little sip of decaf rejection before bed: "I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long" — Louise Brown #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying

🫡 "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" — Upton Sinclair #writingcommunity

ever heard this one? — Frank Herbert, "Dune"

📖🦈 Query Shark anyone? https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2009/10/ original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

One of the 👽 /writing 👽 greats: “Show, don’t tell” should be rephrased as “don’t spoonfeed i... https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/196ipgx #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

🌤️ daily quote time! "We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act" #writingcommunity

🌊 If rejection's flooding your query trenches... "Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story" — F. Scott Fitzgerald #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying

ever heard this one? — Anne Frank, "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl"

often reminded of how valuable Query Shark 📖🦈 is - what a legacy https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2008/12/ original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

Classic from r/writing 👽 Top 200: Amy Poehler pretty much nails the writing life https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/56bwu8 #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

Fresh from the Slushwire 💌 wiretap: "[QCrit] Adult Contemporary Romance - THE LONG CHANGE (80K..." https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1qnx3cp get more at https://writequeryhook.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

📚 "He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead" — John Keats #writingcommunity

🫖 Just a little sip of decaf rejection before bed: "Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work" — James Lee Burke #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying

👽 r/writing Hall of Famer: Hugh Howey (multi-million $ indie writer of Wool) Wrote an A... https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/kszp6m #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips

🌤️ daily quote time! "Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself" — John Locke #writingcommunity

❤️‍🔥 come warm your cockles beside rejection's cozy flame... "I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long" — Louise Brown #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying

ever heard this one? — D.H. Lawrence, "Lady Chatterley's Lover"

📖🦈 some legendary Query Shark action https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2022/09/ original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips