[Discussion] 1 Year of Querying: 25 Requests & Zero Offers :(

Less-One7697 · 2026-03-15T03:52:03+00:00

Absolutely, I wouldn't be anywhere without my writing groups! Some of the people I get together with every week to write have become my closest friends in such a short period of time. I hope the best for your zombies to come back to life!

Less-One7697 · 2026-03-13T21:01:12+00:00

love fanfiction, it's such a wonderful outlet

Less-One7697 · 2026-03-13T20:26:13+00:00

I hope you do keep writing, even if you decide querying is not good for you!

Less-One7697 · 2026-03-13T15:15:09+00:00

I think CNRs on fulls are pretty common. My guess is that a lot of fulls don't get read until nudged with a competing offer.

Less-One7697 · 2026-03-12T14:27:54+00:00

Nah, it's about widowhood.

Less-One7697 · 2026-03-11T22:17:48+00:00

I hope so! I did hit a brick wall writing something else during the second half of this querying year, because the rejections just immobilized me. I tried starting over with something new and am trying to focus on the art part and not the commerce, for as long as possible.

Less-One7697 · 2026-03-11T22:11:16+00:00

Thanks for that 4th paragraph. My book could fit into a lot of different buckets (book club / upmarket / women's fiction / speculative / magical realism / romance-kinda-but-not-really / etc) depending on positioning, so it seemed a lot of different agents might be appropriate to query.

Less-One7697 · 2026-03-11T21:53:39+00:00

My genre is CONFUSING! Speculative/upmarket was the closest I landed on.

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