hummingbird

Keep Going

Total Queries: 18Total Rejections: 3 As I sit here querying, I hear Dory’s words “just keep swimming, just keep swimming” over and over in my head. It would be annoying if it wasn’t so cute. I am working my way through the agent list I made months ago. I have been updating as I go […]

New Query, Again

Total Queries: 14Total Rejections: 3 On an incredibly positive note, I finished a short synopsis for my book and sent queries to three agents who requested it in their guidelines. YAY! Lets just take a moment to be happy. — So nice, isn’t it! Ok, back to reality. I have also been busy rewriting my […]

Sweet Pea Flower

Querying Along

Query Count: 8 I thought I would include a query count from now on. I think it will keep me accountable and hopefully show great progress during this part of the journey. Oh boy, what a journey it is! This week I completely changed up the book explanation of my query. What took me two […]

Query Rejection

1st Rejection

I am wondering if I am now officially an author. Beyond writing something …a novel, picture book, or graphic novel… is it really when we start the journey of peddling what we have spent time, energy, and our soul on that we truly become authors? Is it the act of diving into the bits and […]