Courtney Berman is 💕Querying 💕

(Final for Today🎉) TELL ME THREE THINGS × ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES YA Contemporary | Dual POV | Inspired by my own survival of a dog attack in 2020 A girl is dragged into the street during a violent dog attack. A boy is living in the aftermath of his brother’s death. When a poetry assignment forces them to put their pain into words, IT COMES IN WAVES becomes a quiet YA novel about trauma, grief, and the fragile math of who lives, who heals, and who sees you. #QuestPit #YA #Q #LF #OwnVoice #WritingCommunity #amquerying

@vickyweberbooks This is really helpful. Thank you for posting it, Vicky.

Every agent is a bit different.

All the time. It’s why it’s taken me so long over the last several years to finish anything. I actually have another idea for a book about invisible illnesses. I write blurbs here and there. Random inner monologues. One day I’ll finish it. Don’t give up. Step by step, day by day, you’ll finish.

Question for my chronically ill writers: I have a dream book I want to write but don't have time/energy currently. Are you ever scared that because you take longer your work will never get out? because this book needs to be wrote I just dont know when I will be able to do it.

@CharlieYAuthor ALL DAY LONG. Me too.

opening querytracker again after closing it 5 minutes ago #amquerying #WritingCommunity

Celebrating my small wins for the week! That's my lonely little full request in a sea of rejections🥹 #amquerying #querytrenches #WritingCommunity #writerslift #tradpub

@pennpaperplanes Me today….

How querying feels in 3 parts: 1. I’m the worst writer in the world 2. Hey, maybe I’m not so bad after all! 3. I’m going to eat an entire chocolate cake

@BWheelerBooks I love it! I do basically the same with every rejection. Manically of course… 🙃

@BermanCourtney Got one rejection this week. Sent out 5 more queries.

Checking in on my fellow #amquerying writers today. How is everyone doing this week? Inbox refreshing? Trying not to spiral? Celebrating small wins? Sitting in the quiet? Wherever you are in it, I see you. This part is brave.

@plongrass Same to you!!

@BermanCourtney Good luck everyone

@jociewrites I feel you. Except now as more time passes I’m finding myself second guessing the small wins! 😩

@BermanCourtney I’m caught between trying not to spiral and celebrating small wins. Querying is definitely not for the weak!

@AnnieJay_RuOk Same! It’s like a ghost town over here. 😑

@BermanCourtney Inbox been too eerily quiet ☠️

@Author15se 🙃😭🤣

@BermanCourtney Trying not to spiral 🫠🫠🫠

@CarolynKWrites I feel you! I keep throwing my phone across the bed… then picking it up again and refreshing… someone stop me! 🙃😭

@BermanCourtney Spiraling over here 🫠🥲

@ashtaylorwrite1 Same!! We got this!! 💕

@BermanCourtney Definitely trying not to spiral 😂

@runesopher That too!!! 🙃

@BermanCourtney Don’t forget “thinking about quitting” 😂

Hi, my name is Courtney and I am totally guilty of excessive inbox refreshing today… #MyConfession

@MattForrestVW Or maybe we just need to add it to the dictionary??? I kind of like it!

You know you need a nap when you're writing a query letter and use the word "publishication." I'll be in bed, if you need me. #amwriting #amquerying #KidLit

@CharlieYAuthor Yay! Thinking good thoughts! 💕

@SuzElsonAuthor Good luck!!! 🍀 💕

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmQuerying #KidLit #ChapterBooks I cannot believe my eyes! This is from a top-notch agent I have loved from day one! Oh. My. Goodness!!