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As a writer I humbly go before you – oh mighty publishing industry

About two years ago, my sis and I finished our MS. We were ready to query. By spring, we’d have an agent. By summer, we’d have a book deal. By the fall, we’d be hot stuff.

But that’s not what happened.

By spring, we’d been rejected eleven times. By summer, we’d received not even a request for more pages. And by the fall, we were dead in the water. Researching agents, querying, and being rejected or receiving nothing at all. So is the life of querying writers...

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Querying

I remember nearly seven years ago, I had this idea for a book that I knew if written well enough could get published.  Being the A personality that I am, taking control of the situation, I immediately went into research mode to discover how it was that one went from an idea to a published book.  It all seemed very reasonable: Step 1 - Write a book, but learned that’s actually called a manuscript; Step 2 - Get an agent. Yep! Knew this one was somewhere in there. Step 3 - Get it published by a publisher.  Oh, but wait.  There’s also: Step 1a - Write rough draft; Step 1b - Rewrite rough into first draft; Step 1c - Edit first draft into second draft; Step 1d - Cry and ask yourself

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