Sending My First Query Batch and First Rejection || Querying Journey 

Okay, the frantic anxious energy in psyching yourself up to click Send was too real 😅 But CONGRATULATIONS on entering the trenches!!

Love that you filmed the moment you actually hit send! And psyching yourself up! Good luck with everything. Thanks for sharing

Love these Querying Journey videos, they are so inspiring and motivating!

Congratulations on your first rejection! I am loving following your process. I'm doing Camp Nano right now with my first draft.

Congratulations!!! Good luck and remember to breathe!

I'm in the query trenches as well and nervous. I felt everything you did as well. So nerve-wracking. I'm praying to hear at least 1 yes for my children's book but prepared for the rejections. I think.

Hey, if all else fails self publish it, I am writing mine completely sure I'll self publish it as it quickly turned into a series😅 and I would like for all to be out and not to play with the possibility of it getting shut down❤

Wouldn't it be so great if agents and publishers could just agree on a standard format for submissions!

I’ve always heard that speculative stuff over 120k can be a hard for agents to take on if it’s adult so some auto-reject above that (I think over 100k for YA? But I’m not sure). I think it’s something to do with printing presses since the panini and the printing costs going up since? But I could be wrong. Regardless, I hope querying is still going well and agents take a chance on it (whether it’s higher word count than that or not)!

Oooohh well done on getting in there!! I've never heard the "use a different email" advice before! What's the reasoning behind that?

Can I ask what your word count is on the draft you're submitting? Just curious since that was the reason for your first rejection.