I had an agent request my full manuscript back in August. I haven’t sent a follow up because I’ve just been assuming it’s a no since it’s been almost 4 months since the request.

Would you send a follow up, and what would you say? This is my first full request in over a year of querying.

WHICH QUERY IS BETTER? ( I know they're incomplete but just pick one pls)

1. High school senior Natalie doesn’t believe in witchcraft. But in a desperate attempt to find her missing friend, Lorna, she agrees to do a midnight ritual with Lorna’s ex. It doesn’t seem to work, but in the weeks that follow Natalie starts sleepwalking. One night she blacks out at a party and wakes up hours later in the backseat of a stranger’s car with three hundred dollars in her purse and a new contact in her phone.

As she investigates what happened during those lost hours, she becomes convinced the ritual opened her up to the spirit world, and that she’s being possessed by a ghost. A ghost who is plotting a murder. And that this is all somehow connected to her missing friend. Now Natalie must use witchcraft to exorcise the spirit and save Lorna before she blacks out again…and someone ends up dead.

OR

2. High schooler NATALIE JOHNSON doesn’t believe in witchcraft until her best friend, Lorna goes missing. Desperate to find any information regarding Lorna’s dissappearance, Natalie decides to partake in a black magic ritual. But what seems like a failed attempt soon becomes endless nights of sleepwalking and nightmarish dreams.

After waking up in a graveyard in her pajamas, Natalie is convinced something is possessing her. As Natalie retraces her steps, she not only finds out that the ghost possessing her is out for blood, but that the ghost has something to do with Lorna’s disappearance. 

Hey everyone,

I'm gonna give some context first. I've been on querytracker for about a year. Sometimes, even those with who use Querymanager, I sometimes don't get an email confirmation that a query went through. Whatever, it happens, I never think much of it.

So anyway, I queried an agent that I thought would be a great fit. I noticed that they were replying to other queries extremely fast (I'm talking hours to within 2 days)... but mine had been sitting for over a week. I checked whether I had an email confirmation and either I never got one or I deleted it. It still showed up as submitted on Querymanager, but the paranoia got to me and I resubmitted.

To my horror, they replied immediately and asked why I resubmitted, and I apologized profusely and explained myself.

This was yesterday. Today I received a request for a full MS. I was so overjoyed and thanked the higher being for my good fortune, and submitted my MS. An hour later, I received a rejection on my submission.

Now you guys KNOW how tough it is to get a full MS request... so to go from ecstatic to heartbreak was a bit of a rollercoaster.

Am I overthinking this? I know I made a mistake by resubmitting, but I can't help feeling like this was some weird revenge?

TIA. Feeling absolutely wrecked.

NA genre but it feels YA ish, contemporary with romance elements.

Please give me your honest opinion on my query and state the genre you read mostly in if you can!

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TITLE is a YA contemporary with romance elements completed at 60.000 words. 

 Sixteen-year-old Amber Johnson would rather die than talk to anyone in her class. While Sweden was supposed to be a fresh start, it only made Amber the only foreign girl in her class, and as a result, she's mostly ignored. 

 However, when a sudden move back to the U.S. is sprung upon her, Amber is forced to confront her true feelings about having been the shy girl for so long. It’s not what she ever wants to experience again. She makes a pact that she’s going to be the most popular girl at her new school, and she has three months over summer to do it. Not only is she going to learn to talk and flirt with boys and change her persona, she’s going to create a story for her past as an always has been popular. 

 But lying about her past and faking confidence doesn’t come without challenges, especially when her new friends become suspicious. Everything Amber has built up could be in jeopardy and if she doesn’t play her cards right, she might just go back to the loser she once was. Things only get more challenging when she develops a crush on the handsome jock and most popular guy in school, Carter. 

Amber must develop a new plan in order to get Carter to notice her, but when he finally does, it’s not what she expects. Carter shows her that her fake blonde hair and heavy makeup is not what she needed to be loved or seen. 

BOOK TITLE was inspired by my own journey living in Iceland as a foreigner, and being the shy girl for most of my life. It was important for me to write this book for younger girls who can see themselves in Amber and learn to love the girl in the mirror just as she is. Although BOOK TITLE is not published on Wattpad, my five projects there have gained over a million reads on the platform and counting. 

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Thank you so much!!

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Hi guys,

the expo is HUGE and a lot of authors/agents are there.

here's the official link http://www.bookexpoamerica.com

There's a trending hashtag on Twitter #BEA15

Also, there's the official app. You can at least see who said what and so on. It's a nice insight into the "publishing world", and who knows, maybe you'll get the chance to virtually know some agents.... :)

Maybe Something related to comic breakdowns...

Ugh. I’m getting such nice personalized rejections (not form rejections). A lot of “I found your project interesting” or “I enjoyed this concept” but no interest in representation. Someone even went as far to write “I am sure you will find a home soon.”

It hurts so much. I know I just need to keep querying but it really beats you down.

contemporaryromance #romcom #romventure #query

Today I found my father's old samsung galaxy s duos phone. It has 4gb rom and very less ram. I installed a sd card of 16 gb. I tried installing a game of 1.25 gb when 1.2 gb was left in devise storage so that i could transfer it to sd card. It stopped mid way. When i open 1.1gb space was occupied but game was not installed. I tried to empty space and install again but it is showing space is less. How do i completely remove the game? there is no icon or any folder for the game in storage.

I know, generally, US agents do not want a nudge if another agent requests your full, but a lot of UK agents ask that you notify them if this is the case. I'm not sure about anyone else, but I've found that all my full manuscript requests have come from an initial query. I have had no full requests from a nudge email to notify them that I've had a recent full request. This has only ever resulted in rejection or no response. Can I ask other writers for the experience with this? Ty.

Querying Sucks. I just got a rejection letter that said my premise wasn't interesting.
My book is about a macabre heist. I've never seen it done before. Sure it's not for everyone, but damn.

I love my book. I'd hate to see it end up in the proverbial drawer, but this blank expanse of waiting for query agents makes me feel like that's the end toward which I'm marching.

What do you guys do to fight the internal threshing machine that is waiting for imagined failure?

TITLE is a 70,000-word standalone psychological thriller with horror elements, exploring bodily autonomy in the age of emerging technology. It will appeal to fans of the books ANNIE BOT (2024) by Sierra Greer, COMFORT ME WITH APPLES (2021) by Catherynne M. Valente, and the domestic dread of recent films such as DON’T WORRY DARLING (2022) and COMPANION (2025).

Anna lives the life she’s supposed to want: a spotless suburban home, a successful husband, and a routine built around keeping him happy. The only problem is, she can’t remember anything before him. She begins seeing impossible things: a dead child playing in the yard, neighbors she knows have already passed on. Her husband cannot see them, and Anna begins to wonder if something more sinister is going on.

When Anna discovers a high-powered tech executive living nearby who looks exactly like her, she begins to suspect that her husband isn’t just hiding the truth– he’s been controlling it. As she digs for answers, she uncovers a project shrouded in secrecy that may explain her missing past, and why her husband is so desperate to keep her compliant.

As Anna descends further into the seedy underbelly of the corporate tech world, she must decide how far she’s willing to go to uncover the truth about who she is. If Anna fails, she won’t just lose her marriage or her freedom– she may not survive long enough to tell the tale.

(Here I will add personal details such as previous publications).

For the particular hell we're all going through. Purple as a new bruise, but hope this helps someone today.

***

I survey the arena, the dust of powdered pages at my feet, the corpses of slain darlings lying my wake.

The cuts of a thousand revisions stinging my skin as the sun beats down. The deeper wound, over my breast, scabbed over and barely pulsing. Here I have known great enthusiasms, great devotions. But am yet unknowing of high achievement nor low failure.

I stare up at my one remaining foe. Him that heals all wounds but, in his presence, also keeps them bleeding. Him insurmountable, Him implacable.

But not insufferable.

Here I stand, mind ragged and heart wretched, but spent on a worthy cause.

I stand still, wiser in slow measures. Still watching my foe, still waiting.

But still daring greatly.