One Year of Querying | My Experience in the Trenches

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Hello Authortube! One year ago, I finally entered the query trenches with my YA Fantasy novel. Here’s how it went.
Time Stamps to avoid the British Rambling:
00:00 Intro
00:25 My Writing History
03:36 Project Bodyswap, AKA Thrice a Broken Oath, AKA TABO
08:02 Query prep and Gameplan
12:48 UK VS US queries
16:10 'As well as I expected.'
18:38 My Favourite Rejection
20:55 Rejections galore
21:43 Query changes during the process
23:12 UK vs US AGAIN
24:14 The Quickest Rejection Ever
24:58 Some Fun Stats
26:49 How I feel now
27:44 Did I pick the right project?
29:31 Beta Hindsight
31:44 Will I continue?
33:32 My Querying future
35:41 Questions for you + outro
Ending music: Why- Freckleland
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9 июл 2024

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Комментарии : 16

@elaynegriffith 2 года назад

Omg as an American I thought covering letter was the same as a query 🤦‍♀️ There’s no info out there about it, otherwise! Thanks for clarifying. Yeesh. My journey has been convoluted and long too. Queried my Scifi in 2020 right before the pandemic and was getting manuscript requests. Then the pandemic hit. And I had to do some revisions. Just started querying again (same query), and it’s been 2 months of silence 😳 Hard not to feel demoralized.

@LindsayPuckett 2 года назад

I love honest videos like these

@etjwrites 2 года назад

Very interesting to hear all of your experiences! Fingers crossed you get an acceptance from the queries still out there! LMK if you ever want me to Beta Read for you in the future!

@1cakesz Год назад

Thanks for sharing your experience. I think , in my opinion, you shouldn’t look at it as whether or not your book is “good enough” as we all know books are subjective and there has been downright horrible books (subjectively…) that have been published. Wishing you best of luck on your writing journey!

@Kitahand 2 года назад

Aaaah, this is an amazing peek into the British process of querying. I do like the agent that took the time to reply and give you whatever feedback they had. Even if it was just to affirm your work and what you’re doing \o/

@authorjmceli 2 года назад

A very helpful video! Good luck with everything. Your "Thrice" story sounds very cool.

@frankiesscifiobsession3660 2 года назад

I feel for you. I happy you took the leap sorry it's not working out. I queried and got a handful of rejections so I pulled back myself. That was last year. I hope to try again with a new project in October

@EmmaBennetAuthor Год назад

Thank you for sharing your story. I’m a romance author and I’m still pretty new on here. Subscribed

@corarara6482 2 года назад

Really great info! I'll probably query in the UK too and have also been frustrated by the fact that all content about querying seems to be geared toward the US.

@rosieradcliffe5578 9 месяцев назад

Your favourite rejection strikes me as absolutely standard, and I'm sorry if that's disappointing to you. If you haven't heard back in 3 months you can follow up, but chances are its a no. Life would be so much better for us in the UK if agents here used Query Tracker (most of them don't). Now querying my 3rd novel.

@kitwrites9345 2 года назад

Love the honesty in this video. And while the querying did lead anywhere this particular time, you’re more well equipped next time and it can only go up from here. The video was very useful.

@KayGee_yt 6 месяцев назад

Try to remember that just because a book is good doesn't mean it'll get published. More that the novel's quality goes into the decision

@SarahCahillWrites 6 месяцев назад

Absolutely. Reading in general is very subjective so it’s more hoping an agent will fall in love.

@ianrae5767 2 года назад

I keep meaning to get to querying something, but so far I've not been happy with anything I've finished. Respect for taking the leap Additionally, I have also struggled with figuring out where to find good critique partners. I'm about to endeavour on a new project and am slightly panicked that I don't really talk to any other writers. My friends and family have offered their feedback, but with one exception, none of them have done any study or work in the areas of story structure, or pacing, or character development. And they're friends and family, so there'll be a certain amount of kindness in their replies that won't necessarily be deserved. I figure that's a problem for the future version of me that has a completed draught, plenty of time to figure it out. The scariest thing for me though was posting some of my work on Tumblr. Terrifying stuff.

@ossie444 8 месяцев назад

Have you thought about employing a professional developmnetal editor? This investment, while costly, may well give you the information you need going forward and pay for itself over time.

@SarahCahillWrites 8 месяцев назад

I'd love to, but it is literally the cost that is preventing me from doing it.