: How to Stay Sane While Querying Literary Agents By Courtney Maum

This seems like it could be useful for many of our friends. Except the poets. Because someone decided at some point that no one needed to pay the poets anymore. It’s not like they’re one of the world’s oldest professions or anything. 

thetinhouse:

As I’m writing this, my search for a literary agent finds me with three agents having turned down the project based on my query alone, two agents rejecting the manuscript after reading it, three agents reading it, and two queries still unanswered. In other words, I’m at the very beginning of my…

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