the search for the new pope lasted 1/40th the length of the average academic job search and i bet he wasn't asked to write a teaching philosophy or submit three sample syllabi, with assignments

My latest Substack lifts the curtain on my current query inbox and answers the question: Why I haven't responded to your query yet? open.substack.com/pub/kesialup...

New on Substack: On the one-year anniversary of signing with my literary agent (hi @keslupo.bsky.social!), I reflect on what I did wrong and what I did right in my querying process. jillcaddell.substack.com/p/a-year-ago...

I wanted to write something on the realities of agenting - but honestly it felt too big of a topic (there's a lot of structural industry stuff, plus I can't speak for all of us). So I wrote instead about a typical day for me, right now. I hope you enjoy it! open.substack.com/pub/kesialup...

I've been having a think about how best to balance my list and my queries - as a result, I've decided that in the third week of November (18th-25th), I will open ONLY to writers of color across YA & adult fiction and select adult non-fiction.🧵