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katehalena.bsky.social
Rejections aren't roadblocks--they're redirections.
📧 Keep querying.
✍️ Keep writing.
💫 Keep believing.
June 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
✨ #Word Up‼️✨
(E-Z #BookHook🪝Edition📖✍️)

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#writingcommunity🏘️ #querying📧
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WhenA (inciting incident) happens, B (character) must do C (action) otherwise/before D (catastrophe).
April 25, 2026 at 1:55 AM
lindsayallisonbks.bsky.social
Manifesting:
✍🏻 Sign with an agent by the end of the year.

Within my control:
✍🏻 Revise HMTAS one more time with a focus on emotionality.
📧 Start querying!
👻 Start my second WIP.

On that note… I need some suggestions! See below:

#revpit #revpitwaiting
ambucsaru.bsky.social A. M. Bucsaru is AGENTED @ambucsaru.bsky.social · Apr 11
#RevPitWaiting T-3

Even after #RevPit winners are announced, our writing journeys are far from over. We'll still be walking down our paths, just with upgraded tools thanks to the editors & our community.

So what's next for you?
4/11 - Writing Goals. Regardless of what happens on Monday, what are your next writing goals? Do any of us have similar paths?
April 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
Views from the #QueryTrenches🧰📧

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The five stages of querying: DENIAL: This is the best book ever and everyone is gonna wanna rep me immediately. ANGER: What is wrong with these people how they do not see how great my book is?! BARGAINING: Maybe if I change my letter 27 times that will help DEPRESSION: I Should just quit writing. ACCEPTANCE: Querying sucks and not everyone is going to love my manuscript. But I will NEVER quit writing!
March 19, 2026 at 9:41 PM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
In the querying trenches.📧
June 26, 2026 at 2:15 AM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
✨ #RejectRejection‼️🙅🏻‍♀️📖✍️✨

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List of famous authors who have received rejections: Carrie— Stephen King: 30 Chicken soup for the soul— Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen: 123 Diary of Anne Frank—16 Dr. Seuss books: 15 Dubliners— James Joyce: 22 Dune— Frank Herbert: 23 Gone w/The Wind— Margaret Mitchell: 38 Harry Potter (Book 1)— J. K. Rowling: 12 Jonathan Livingston Seagull— Richard Bach: 18 Jon-Tiki—Thor Heyerdahl: 20 M*A*S*H— Richard Hooker: 17 The Peter Principle— Lawrence Peter: 16 The Princess Diaries— Meg Cabot: 17 Watership Down-Richard Adams: 26 A Wrinkles in Time—Madeleine L’Engle: 26
May 12, 2026 at 1:21 AM