When will you be opening to queries?

Trad publishing is so SLOW.
My first request was after 2 days, but he rejected after 5 months. My most recent request came after 145 days in her inbox. I’ve change my query letter 4 times, my comps twice.

This is why they recommend drafting a new project while you query. To help keep you sane.

Querying is a marathon. Most agents don’t respond for weeks.
Don’t rush yourself or the agents. It took you time to write your manuscript, to perfect it, give them time to consider it.
You did the creative part, welcome to the business end of writing.

A Broken Soldier
A Reclusive Metallurgist
An Arranged Marriage

His secrets run as deep as her wounds.
Is he after her heart?
Or the terrible power that she wields?

Because he cannot have both.

In peace and in love, she becomes the weapon she swore she’d never be again.

Everything I’ve read has said “six months and considerable revisions”…
GO FOR IT!

Either “not the right fit” or “I don’t know where to sell this to.”
I had one say they wished the tropes had been “done in a different way”. Nothing substantial.

Just did a manuscript eval with my (personal) editor and made some minor changes.

I remain hopeful and determined.