#amquerying my agent database updates, 8/28: Alice Speilburg: clients/books/editors Amanda Carbonell: clients/books/editors, opened, sub info, anti-mswl Amy Giuffrida: open date Brady McReynolds: sub info Charlotte Dowson (NB Illustration): added

#amquerying my agent database updates, 8/27: Abigail Frank: author bio, pb sub info Alex Gehringer: publishers marketplace, genres, sub info, pb sub info Alexandra Levick: publishers marketplace, clients/books/editors Amy Stern: author bio, pb sub info Ashley Reisinger: publishers marketplace

#amquerying, my agent database updates, 8/26 anti-mswl, notes, clients/books/editors sheets: added to new individual spreadsheets for age ranges. load time is down massively. pb sub info column: moved, renamed, added for qt agents adult historical fantasy: added author-only picture books: added

my agent database updates, 8/25 cozy fantasy (adult): added cozy fantasy (young adult): added Amaryah Orenstein (Go Literary): added Brady McReynolds: genres Ciara Finan: notes, genres Elaine Spencer: notes, genres Go Literary: added Grace Milusich: notes, genres, character bio

my agent database updates, 8/24: Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong: open date Chloe Seager: clients/books/editors Jas Perry: mswl Jennifer Laughran: clients/books/editors Jennifer March Soloway: notes, anti-mswl Jessica Schmeidler: genres, clients/books/editors

i was updating my agent data spreadsheet just now, and an #amquerying subscriber popped in to research agents. i love seeing this every time. i love knowing i'm helping people find agents information that much faster. iampunha.medium.com/introducing-... <3

morgan and i have been working on this for some time. we hope it helps :) www.patreon.com/checkout/MyA...

#amquerying humans often want feedback, so i wrote about what to do when you can't get the feedback you want: iampunha.medium.com/why-agents-g... good luck <3

a nice four days of rest, but apparently here we are again.

it's very cool to me that my ten #amquerying subscribers can click on a spreadsheet tab and see hundreds of agents waiting for a book in their genre and age range. easy sub language, notes all in one place, etc. all for $1 a month. www.patreon.com/checkout/MyA... <3

i dunno, i guess i figure an agent who has the time to tweet has the time to tweet an apology for something gross. but that's me imagining having accountability, rather than me imagining limiting dissent and pushing the bad tweet further down the timeline.

#amquerying, there are basically two types of people: 1) those who own their mistakes. 2) those who don't. thanks to @meaganburgad.bsky.social for showing us that when she makes a mistake, she limits dissent, which is a way to avoid owning the mistake.

#amquerying here's a paid resource for finding agents: iampunha.medium.com/introducing-... good luck <3

#amquerying not here much, but after the latest agent showed her theft-supporting ass, anyone who wants my do-not-query list, holler privately with your email. <3

i've gotten three share requests for my dnq (do-not-query) list in two days. #amquerying humans, if you* want access, dm me. <3 *no agency or publisher employees.

they can respect trans people. they know they can. they don't want to. this is like segregated schooling: black and white kids can be put in the same classroom. they know that. they don't want to admit it. make them. <3

i'm not on here a lot (busy with two jobs), but my father was an er nurse, my great-great-grandfather invented baby powder and my job is science, so ...

the problem with america isn't dei, it's djt.

writing my free #amquerying editing class. for people who need or want more, i have paid options. <3

#amquerying advice: having read close to 1,000 agent bios, including submission reqs, over the past year: most agents don't say they care about personalization. of those who say they do, the bulk just want their name.

might teach a free #amquerying submission package editing class next month. free basics, with options for paid extras, including agent lists. <3

surfacing from days of research to report: boot, better, best evil, worse, worst until recently (and the pre-evil form isn't recorded) go, goed, gone for a number of centuries to be is four verbs suppletion is irritating.

"hey dad," daughter 2.0 (in fourth grade) says as she bursts into the room while i tab away from writing a sex scene. sigh.

shan's not on here, so i'm sharing it without her. this is her query, marked up by me, which got more than three dozen full requests: docs.google.com/document/d/1... for #amquerying study <3

it's sort of weird to me that if there's snow, the school board can cancel school, but if there's a school shooter, my kids have to hide because the school board can't do anything. is there a shooter or politician group preventing the school board from doing something?

just read yet another horrendous defense of queries. i will be so glad when agents stop asking writers to write queries. just staple the query's metadata and bio paragraphs to the synopsis, stick all that with the first chapter and call it a night as an industry. one uniform document. <3

after you remove all the relatives he pardoned, is this new pardony thing from joe biden still the biggest? </3

the uhc ceo killer manhunt underscores the lesson the prosecution of bernie madoff also underscored for us: screwing with the poor is a nonevent. screwing with the rich is a crime. </3

Congrats to CNN for Lowest-Rated Week in Decades, It's Well Deserved My New Post:

old but still worth it: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b... <3

iampunha.medium.com/why-the-best... <3

genocide is not an act of self-defense. </3

bit.ly/sampleagentl... and from my 2,600-row spreadsheet, i can also make lists for #amquerying fiction/nonfiction, every age range (like new adult), genre, classification, story basis (like nonwestern), agents seeking bipoc/queer/etc., agents not needing a synopsis and more. <3

#amquerying is: writer: hi i wrote a book. publishing: did you write a partial summary document? writer: ? :writes partial summary document: publishing: all wrong. writer: ? but everyone said ... :fixes: publishing: did you also write a summary document? writer: :rages:

just sent my first #amquerying agent list to the client. feels nice to facilitate querying in a new way. hoping to sell more lists this year and especially next. <3

daughter 1.0's telepathy act couldn't have gone better. <3

as i've said and as i'll keep saying: the democratic party's actions make sense if and only if you understand they are not trying to win elections. they are not trying to help the nonrich. they are trying to raise money. </3

so other than the fact that i've barely eaten and i've peed seven times, i wouldn't say i'm nervous. <3

stealth mode editorial services startup is planning and doing some fun things. can't wait to start sharing with everyone :) <3

#amquerying humans, check bio update. i helped one more person get a request and more (other) more get an agent. <3

daughter 2.0, who is in elementary school, is probably going to be in a middle school musical. because she asked. if you ask, they might say yes. if you don't, they probably won't. <3

dear absolute idiots thinking jared polis has been hacked and that's why he appears to support rfk for hhs: www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new... go away forever. along with rfk and jared polio (which someone else came up with).

i'm so out of it. "how out of it are you, p?" i'm so out of it that in a search for fairy, i noticed i wasn't finding folk, and i worried i didn't have any folk. <3

not sure how much more i'm going to do in my agent research project this year with the kids largely my responsibility until next year, but if i get nothing more done, having almost half the project complete is nice. looking forward to using it to help more #amquerying writers next year. <3

back again. not sure i'm going to leave twitter, but i should be here too, for #amquerying needs and otherwise. no sighing here, only hearts. <3

#wipsnips from something i subbed a few days ago. publishing sigh <3

hello, #amquerying humans. blue sky sent me an invite code. whether this is good or bad is your decision. [verb] sigh <3