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queer, father, editor, writer, etc.

agent research database: https://iampunha.medium.com/introducing-my-agent-database-d8a15631837e

queery helpline/ko-fi http://bit.ly/2YA08ym (requests for 73 writers, agents/pubs for 35)
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December 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
#amquerying my agent database updates, 8/28:

Alice Speilburg: clients/books/editors
Amanda Carbonell: clients/books/editors, opened, sub info, anti-mswl
Amy Giuffrida: open date
Brady McReynolds: sub info
Charlotte Dowson (NB Illustration): added
August 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
#amquerying my agent database updates, 8/27:

Abigail Frank: author bio, pb sub info

Alex Gehringer: publishers marketplace, genres, sub info, pb sub info

Alexandra Levick: publishers marketplace, clients/books/editors

Amy Stern: author bio, pb sub info

Ashley Reisinger: publishers marketplace
August 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
#amquerying, my agent database updates, 8/26

anti-mswl, notes, clients/books/editors sheets: added to new individual spreadsheets for age ranges. load time is down massively.

pb sub info column: moved, renamed, added for qt agents

adult historical fantasy: added

author-only picture books: added
August 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
my agent database updates, 8/25

cozy fantasy (adult): added
cozy fantasy (young adult): added

Amaryah Orenstein (Go Literary): added
Brady McReynolds: genres
Ciara Finan: notes, genres
Elaine Spencer: notes, genres
Go Literary: added
Grace Milusich: notes, genres, character bio
August 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
my agent database updates, 8/24:

Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong: open date
Chloe Seager: clients/books/editors
Jas Perry: mswl
Jennifer Laughran: clients/books/editors
Jennifer March Soloway: notes, anti-mswl
Jessica Schmeidler: genres, clients/books/editors
August 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
i was updating my agent data spreadsheet just now, and an #amquerying subscriber popped in to research agents.

i love seeing this every time. i love knowing i'm helping people find agents information that much faster.

iampunha.medium.com/introducing-...

<3
introducing my agent database
querying is hard. part of the trouble is finding agents to query. so for the past 15 months, i’ve sat at my computer compiling information…
iampunha.medium.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
morgan and i have been working on this for some time. we hope it helps :)

www.patreon.com/checkout/MyA...
August 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
#amquerying humans often want feedback, so i wrote about what to do when you can't get the feedback you want:

iampunha.medium.com/why-agents-g...

good luck <3
why agents give little free feedback (and what to do about that)
every writer who queries an agent wants a response. it’s natural — it’s closure. even if it’s just “sorry, it’s a no,” that’s one more…
iampunha.medium.com
August 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
a nice four days of rest, but apparently here we are again.
July 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
it's very cool to me that my ten #amquerying subscribers can click on a spreadsheet tab and see hundreds of agents waiting for a book in their genre and age range. easy sub language, notes all in one place, etc. all for $1 a month.

www.patreon.com/checkout/MyA...

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July 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
i dunno, i guess i figure an agent who has the time to tweet has the time to tweet an apology for something gross. but that's me imagining having accountability, rather than me imagining limiting dissent and pushing the bad tweet further down the timeline.
July 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
#amquerying, there are basically two types of people:

1) those who own their mistakes.

2) those who don't.

thanks to @meaganburgad.bsky.social for showing us that when she makes a mistake, she limits dissent, which is a way to avoid owning the mistake.
July 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
#amquerying not here much, but after the latest agent showed her theft-supporting ass, anyone who wants my do-not-query list, holler privately with your email.

<3
April 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
i've gotten three share requests for my dnq (do-not-query) list in two days. #amquerying humans, if you* want access, dm me.

<3

*no agency or publisher employees.
March 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
they can respect trans people.

they know they can.

they don't want to.

this is like segregated schooling: black and white kids can be put in the same classroom.

they know that.

they don't want to admit it.

make them.

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More of this!
March 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
i'm not on here a lot (busy with two jobs), but my father was an er nurse, my great-great-grandfather invented baby powder and my job is science, so ...
Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it.

Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on.

Making this my pinned post.
March 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
the problem with america isn't dei, it's djt.
January 31, 2025 at 12:57 AM
writing my free #amquerying editing class. for people who need or want more, i have paid options.

<3
January 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
#amquerying advice:

having read close to 1,000 agent bios, including submission reqs, over the past year: most agents don't say they care about personalization. of those who say they do, the bulk just want their name.
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January 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
might teach a free #amquerying submission package editing class next month. free basics, with options for paid extras, including agent lists.

<3
January 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
surfacing from days of research to report:

boot, better, best

evil, worse, worst until recently (and the pre-evil form isn't recorded)

go, goed, gone for a number of centuries

to be is four verbs

suppletion is irritating.
January 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM