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- 📚 "The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions" — Naguib Mahfouz #writingcommunity
- 🫖 Just a little sip of decaf rejection before bed: "A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success" — Bo Bennett #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
- a little Query Shark for ya: queryshark.blogspot.com/2009/05/ original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
- Caught! by 📫 Slushwire: Post from @ssnow-litagent.bsky.social: https://bsky.app/profile/ssnow-litagent.bsky.social/post/3mdvbpjq34k2z Track all alerts at https://writequeryhook.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
- "There is no success without hardship" — Sophocles #writingcommunity
- daily rejection inspiration: "One test of a writer is his or her ability to keep rejections in perspective, even to make use of them" — Ralph Keyes #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
- r/PubTips 👽 greatest hit: [Discussion] 30 full requests…and no offer reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/… #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
- 🤔 "He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope" — Edward Albee #writingcommunity
- Reminder - rejection is a sign of progress! "Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections" — Brian Klemmer #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
- Today's 🦈 Shark action: queryshark.blogspot.com/2013/09/ original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
- Picked up by 💌 Slushwire: Post from @leeannward-writer.bsky.social: https://bsky.app/profile/leeannward-writer.bsky.social/post/3mdikk4s2mc2h More writerly alert_urls at https://writequeryhook.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
- "Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity" — Albert Camus #writingcommunity
- Slushwire Week 5 - 164 alerts for writers: 👽 Reddit: 21 🦋 Bluesky: 44 📋 Critiques: 30 🕵️ Agents: 60 📬 Openings: 9 Get the Free intel writers use to beat the query trenches → writequeryhook.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
- 🫖 Just a little sip of decaf rejection before bed: "I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long" — Louise Brown #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
- 🫡 "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" — Upton Sinclair #writingcommunity
- ever heard this one? — Frank Herbert, "Dune"
- 📖🦈 Query Shark anyone? queryshark.blogspot.com/2009/10/ original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
- One of the 👽 /writing 👽 greats: “Show, don’t tell” should be rephrased as “don’t spoonfeed i... reddit.com/r/writing/comments/… #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
- 🌤️ daily quote time! "We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act" #writingcommunity
- 🌊 If rejection's flooding your query trenches... "Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story" — F. Scott Fitzgerald #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
- ever heard this one? — Anne Frank, "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl"
- often reminded of how valuable Query Shark 📖🦈 is - what a legacy queryshark.blogspot.com/2008/12/ original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
- Classic from r/writing 👽 Top 200: Amy Poehler pretty much nails the writing life reddit.com/r/writing/comments/… #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
- Fresh from the Slushwire 💌 wiretap: "[QCrit] Adult Contemporary Romance - THE LONG CHANGE (80K..." reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/… get more at https://writequeryhook.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
- 📚 "He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead" — John Keats #writingcommunity
- 🫖 Just a little sip of decaf rejection before bed: "Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work" — James Lee Burke #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
- 👽 r/writing Hall of Famer: Hugh Howey (multi-million $ indie writer of Wool) Wrote an A... reddit.com/r/writing/comments/… #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
- 🌤️ daily quote time! "Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself" — John Locke #writingcommunity
- ❤️🔥 come warm your cockles beside rejection's cozy flame... "I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long" — Louise Brown #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
- ever heard this one? — D.H. Lawrence, "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
- 📖🦈 some legendary Query Shark action queryshark.blogspot.com/2022/09/ original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
- Fresh from the Slushwire 🍧 wiretap: Post from @marchsoloway.bsky.social: https://bsky.app/profile/marchsoloway.bsky.social/post/3mcztqwvboc2k get more at https://writequeryhook.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
- 🌤️ daily quote time! "One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself" — Jack London #writingcommunity
- 🌊 If rejection's flooding your query trenches... "I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I’m going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box" — James Lee Burke #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
- all-time top 200 r/PubTips throwback: [PubTip] To People Who Deletes Their Posts, Please Don't Giv... reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/… #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
- "I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that ear... — Pat Conroy #writingcommunity
- daily rejection inspiration: "Failure is success if we learn from it" — Malcolm Forbes #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
- ever heard this one? — J.K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"
- Today's 🦈 Shark action: queryshark.blogspot.com/2021/11/ original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
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- just a good ol' fashioned daily author quote: "Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance" — John Keats #writingcommunity
- Slushwire Week 4 - 114 alerts for writers: 👽 Reddit: 16 🦋 Bluesky: 30 📋 Critiques: 29 🕵️ Agents: 35 📬 Openings: 4 Get the Free intel writers use to beat the query trenches → writequeryhook.com #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
- 🫖 Just a little sip of decaf rejection before bed: "I love my rejection slips. They show me I try" — Sylvia Plath #writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
- just a good ol' fashioned daily author quote: "Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms" #writingcommunity
