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→ Agents matched to YOUR manuscript
→ 3,200+ agents ranked by fit
→ Real-time alerts
→ Query tracker + weekly intel
→ www.writequeryhook.com/subscription
Find agents who want your book. Built by writers for writers
#writingcommunity #pubtips #querytrenches #amquerying
Reminder - rejection is a sign of progress!
"There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it’s a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it’s no judgment on your story and/or talent"
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"There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it’s a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it’s no judgment on your story and/or talent"
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
December 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Reminder - rejection is a sign of progress!
"There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it’s a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it’s no judgment on your story and/or talent"
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
"There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it’s a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it’s no judgment on your story and/or talent"
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
r/PubTips 👽 greatest hit:
[Discussion] signed with an agent today!!! Stats & Succe...
https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1m9ioul
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
[Discussion] signed with an agent today!!! Stats & Succe...
https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1m9ioul
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
December 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
r/PubTips 👽 greatest hit:
[Discussion] signed with an agent today!!! Stats & Succe...
https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1m9ioul
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
[Discussion] signed with an agent today!!! Stats & Succe...
https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1m9ioul
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself"
— George Bernard Shaw ✍️
#writingcommunity
— George Bernard Shaw ✍️
#writingcommunity
December 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself"
— George Bernard Shaw ✍️
#writingcommunity
— George Bernard Shaw ✍️
#writingcommunity
Slushwire Week 1 - 61 alerts for writers:
👽 Reddit: 4
🦋 Bluesky: 14
📋 Critiques: 29
🕵️ Agents: 9
📬 Openings: 5
Get the Free intel writers use to beat the query trenches → writequeryhook.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
👽 Reddit: 4
🦋 Bluesky: 14
📋 Critiques: 29
🕵️ Agents: 9
📬 Openings: 5
Get the Free intel writers use to beat the query trenches → writequeryhook.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
December 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Slushwire Week 1 - 61 alerts for writers:
👽 Reddit: 4
🦋 Bluesky: 14
📋 Critiques: 29
🕵️ Agents: 9
📬 Openings: 5
Get the Free intel writers use to beat the query trenches → writequeryhook.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
👽 Reddit: 4
🦋 Bluesky: 14
📋 Critiques: 29
🕵️ Agents: 9
📬 Openings: 5
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:
"By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing"
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
"By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing"
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
December 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
🫖 Just a little sip of decaf rejection before bed:
"By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing"
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
"By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing"
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
📖 rejection file:
— Richard Hooker, "M*A*S*H"
— Richard Hooker, "M*A*S*H"
December 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
📖 rejection file:
— Richard Hooker, "M*A*S*H"
— Richard Hooker, "M*A*S*H"
🦈 always good:
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2009/04/
original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2009/04/
original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
December 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🦈 always good:
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2009/04/
original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2009/04/
original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
surfaced during our daily scan 🍧:
"[QCrit] Godmarked, Adult Romantic Fantasy, 105k, 1st Attempt"
https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1pumfcu
Discover more at
https://writequeryhook.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
"[QCrit] Godmarked, Adult Romantic Fantasy, 105k, 1st Attempt"
https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1pumfcu
Discover more at
https://writequeryhook.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
December 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
surfaced during our daily scan 🍧:
"[QCrit] Godmarked, Adult Romantic Fantasy, 105k, 1st Attempt"
https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1pumfcu
Discover more at
https://writequeryhook.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
"[QCrit] Godmarked, Adult Romantic Fantasy, 105k, 1st Attempt"
https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1pumfcu
Discover more at
https://writequeryhook.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
"Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic"
— Larry Mcmurtry ✍️
#writingcommunity
— Larry Mcmurtry ✍️
#writingcommunity
December 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic"
— Larry Mcmurtry ✍️
#writingcommunity
— Larry Mcmurtry ✍️
#writingcommunity
just a good ol' fashioned daily author quote:
"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves"
— Tom Wolfe
#writingcommunity
"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves"
— Tom Wolfe
#writingcommunity
December 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
just a good ol' fashioned daily author quote:
"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves"
— Tom Wolfe
#writingcommunity
"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves"
— Tom Wolfe
#writingcommunity
📖 a small tale of rejection
— Richard Bach, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"
— Richard Bach, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"
December 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
📖 a small tale of rejection
— Richard Bach, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"
— Richard Bach, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"
📖🦈 Writers if you're querying read The Shark
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2010/05/
original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2010/05/
original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
December 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
📖🦈 Writers if you're querying read The Shark
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2010/05/
original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2010/05/
original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
r/publishing 👽 greatest hit:
Advice on starting an indie publishing company
https://www.reddit.com/r/publishing/comments/z7cre0
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
Advice on starting an indie publishing company
https://www.reddit.com/r/publishing/comments/z7cre0
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
December 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
r/publishing 👽 greatest hit:
Advice on starting an indie publishing company
https://www.reddit.com/r/publishing/comments/z7cre0
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
Advice on starting an indie publishing company
https://www.reddit.com/r/publishing/comments/z7cre0
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
🌤️ daily quote time!
"Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society"
— Thomas Paine
#writingcommunity
"Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society"
— Thomas Paine
#writingcommunity
December 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🌤️ daily quote time!
"Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society"
— Thomas Paine
#writingcommunity
"Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society"
— Thomas Paine
#writingcommunity
🌊 If rejection's flooding your query trenches...
"I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detoursso enjoy the view"
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
"I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detoursso enjoy the view"
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
December 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
🌊 If rejection's flooding your query trenches...
"I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detoursso enjoy the view"
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
"I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detoursso enjoy the view"
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying
📖 rejection file:
— Jeff Kinney, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid"
— Jeff Kinney, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid"
December 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
📖 rejection file:
— Jeff Kinney, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid"
— Jeff Kinney, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid"
Today's light Query Shark reading:
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2018/07/317.html
original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2018/07/317.html
original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
December 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Today's light Query Shark reading:
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2018/07/317.html
original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2018/07/317.html
original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
Classic from r/writing 👽 Top 200:
Understand that most of the advice you get on this subreddit...
https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/1fc8n0a
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
Understand that most of the advice you get on this subreddit...
https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/1fc8n0a
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
December 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Classic from r/writing 👽 Top 200:
Understand that most of the advice you get on this subreddit...
https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/1fc8n0a
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
Understand that most of the advice you get on this subreddit...
https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/1fc8n0a
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
Reeled in by 📫 Slushwire:
"[QCrit] Adult sapphic romance | IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT U..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1pr2quk
Query better at
https://writequeryhook.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
"[QCrit] Adult sapphic romance | IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT U..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1pr2quk
Query better at
https://writequeryhook.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
December 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Reeled in by 📫 Slushwire:
"[QCrit] Adult sapphic romance | IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT U..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1pr2quk
Query better at
https://writequeryhook.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
"[QCrit] Adult sapphic romance | IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT U..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1pr2quk
Query better at
https://writequeryhook.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
daily words today:
"Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young"
— Rabindranath Tagore
#writingcommunity
"Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young"
— Rabindranath Tagore
#writingcommunity
December 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
daily words today:
"Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young"
— Rabindranath Tagore
#writingcommunity
"Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young"
— Rabindranath Tagore
#writingcommunity
One of the 👽 /writing 👽 greats:
Masashi Kishimoto, author of the famous anime series “Naruto...
https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/ammrbl
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
Masashi Kishimoto, author of the famous anime series “Naruto...
https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/ammrbl
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
December 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
One of the 👽 /writing 👽 greats:
Masashi Kishimoto, author of the famous anime series “Naruto...
https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/ammrbl
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
Masashi Kishimoto, author of the famous anime series “Naruto...
https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/ammrbl
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
just a good ol' fashioned daily author quote:
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain"
— Emily Dickinson
#writingcommunity
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain"
— Emily Dickinson
#writingcommunity
December 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
just a good ol' fashioned daily author quote:
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain"
— Emily Dickinson
#writingcommunity
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain"
— Emily Dickinson
#writingcommunity
I swear by:
Index cards,
Note cards,
Coffee,
Gummy erasers,
noise cancelling cans
The little black thing is a valve stem - all that was left of our car after being totaled and towed away this year - a Talisman of sorts.
Happy Noche Buena writers and readers!
#writingcommunity
Index cards,
Note cards,
Coffee,
Gummy erasers,
noise cancelling cans
The little black thing is a valve stem - all that was left of our car after being totaled and towed away this year - a Talisman of sorts.
Happy Noche Buena writers and readers!
#writingcommunity
December 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I swear by:
Index cards,
Note cards,
Coffee,
Gummy erasers,
noise cancelling cans
The little black thing is a valve stem - all that was left of our car after being totaled and towed away this year - a Talisman of sorts.
Happy Noche Buena writers and readers!
#writingcommunity
Index cards,
Note cards,
Coffee,
Gummy erasers,
noise cancelling cans
The little black thing is a valve stem - all that was left of our car after being totaled and towed away this year - a Talisman of sorts.
Happy Noche Buena writers and readers!
#writingcommunity
📖 a small tale of rejection
— Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"
— Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"
December 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
📖 a small tale of rejection
— Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"
— Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"
Our 2x weekly Query Shark plug
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2007/08/
original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2007/08/
original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
December 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Our 2x weekly Query Shark plug
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2007/08/
original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2007/08/
original content not ours but by queryshark.blogspot.com
#writingcommunity #querytrenches #amquerying #pubtips