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"Thank you so much for working with me until we got the query just right. It still feels like my query in my words but fine tuned so it sings!" -- 7/30/23

"I would never have gotten to this draft without you." 7/25/23

"I feel great about the query thanks to all your feedback and direction. It’s been a pleasure working with you." 7/19/23

I am so grateful for your guidance, you really helped me polish beyond what I could’ve done myself. Thank you so much! 7/6/23 Thank you for all of your help! You really helped move the story forward. 7/6/23

Thank you for your notes - they've really helped me in thinking about how to craft the query and make it more effective. I feel a lot better about this version than my first draft. 7/22/23

I have greatly appreciated how you've paired your suggestions with explanations, especially for the more significant revisions. I feel that your explanations have helped me develop more elegance in my writing. 6/15/23

I just wanted to let you know that I’m agented! I couldn’t have done it without your advice. Thank you so much! 6/28/23

Thank you for your help. The last round of suggestions you made on my pages were minor in terms of the amount changed, but big in terms of impact. I feel like you helped pin down some things that were nagging at me that I couldn't quite put my finger on. 6/5/23

I want to thank you for your continued feedback. It went beyond what I hoped to get and was the reason I kept working on the query instead of sending something off I would have regretted an hour later. 6/6/23

I so appreciate your guidance on this process!! You provide an amazing service. 5/30/23 Thank you for the invaluable feedback. The edits helped me shave off 7,000 words during my latest revisal. I wouldn’t have been able to grow like this without you. 5/18/23

Thank you for your humor, your patience and persistence with me. 4/23/23 I'd like to thank you for all of your feedback on my query letter and first chapter. It has really helped me clean up my writing. 4/17/23

Thank you again for all of your help, you’ve been amazing! 3/28/23 Thank you so much for your patience and help. Your instincts have allowed me deeper insight, which I am very grateful for! 3/19/23 You’ve made this query letter so much more than it was! 3/1/23

Thank you so much for all your excellent help. I feel so confident in sending this out to agents now. 2/12/23 This process and your keen notes have been revelatory. I was blind to the excessive words, descriptions, and more telling than showing in my manuscript 2/1/23

This query letter is much stronger now than when I started. I learned a lot through this process. Thank you. 1/26/23 I can't thank you enough for the honest feedback, including telling me to throw my first draft out completely. 1/24/23

"I just want to say thank you so much for your help. This is a tough process, but I think I'm significantly more prepared, now." 10/31/21

I was completely clueless as to where I was going wrong. Now, it’s blindingly obvious why I was receiving form rejections. 10/6/21

I’ve learned so much through your feedback – not only about writing query letters, but you also helped me to be able to articulate the heart of my story… which will be critical when it comes time to entice potential readers to pick up my book. Thank you for that 10/9/21

I appreciate your critical eye so much. It's given me confidence. 10/22/21

Your suggestions throughout have been so great and I've learned a lot. They made the whole book stronger and better, actually. 10/24/21

Your advice has gone beyond just the query and has helped reshape major points in the story itself and for that I'm very grateful. Both pieces have come out of this stronger. 10/25/21