Hi! How clean should the manuscript be? I have a good first draft. All the elements are there but not sure if the goal is to be like query stage ?

Thank you! Resent :)

Hi Alex! I just received your query response today. I have been reworking since March when I sent leaving Lakin it is much improved on the showing versus telling (worked with mentor/group). Do you ever allow second passes? If not that is so ok but it doesn’t hurt to ask I thought. Thanks so much

I would love
To see that book! I have a historical fiction about a historical black hospital in Jim Crowe era in West Virginia that I am querying

Thank you so much for meeting today. It was so so helpful. I am going to work diligently on making my manuscript better :)

I am so sorry somehow I missed that this was for romantasy :/. My apologies- some exciting pitches here though !

A 60,000 word historical fiction piece with multiple points of view- examining race, sexuality, and the treatment of psychiatric patients in the time of lobotomies at the dawn of the psychotropic age, all in an Appalachian setting.

Hi! I am meeting you at Carnegie this weekend. The mswl day on Bluesky was amazing thanks to you and all the other agents for participating !