It’ll be hilarious when the next administration repurposes this to the The Barack Obama Museum of Immigration Excellence 🌚

“Mounting concerns”. Can we abandon the journalist rhetoric for one second and use real names for the things that are happening in this country? He took your funding ffs!

It was honestly hard to tell how serious any of this was, but if more than 20% was serious, I can’t overstate how important therapy is for straight men ❤️

I get that objectively it’s not the work being judged but ultimately without feedback (and I understand that too many people are querying for everyone to get a personal response) it’s hard to avoid resentment. You did what you thought was your best and you don’t even get to know where you messed up

-> being either a form rejection or ghosting, and with most agents understandably not hyped to get requeried over and over with the same unaltered book, it’s functionally the same thing because either way you’re getting no actionable feedback to change the book OR the pitch and you can’t retry it.

Just now catching up and despite my virulent disillusionment with trade publishing and querying, I was on board for the majority of the episode until we got to the part about “it’s not your book getting rejected, it’s your pitch”. Which on one level - sure, fine. But with so much of responses ->

Apparently no queer masc author wrote a book in the past couple of years.