D. Cooper Ho is Querying

If IN BETWEEN were a Swiftie song: "RUIN THE FRIENDSHIP" x "LOVE STORY" but with ghosts and roles flipped. 👻🔮 Reluctant Medium 🔥🕰️ Slowburn Friends to Lovers 🤝🏡Found Family 💀💕Cinnamon Roll Ghost Boyfriend 🕯️✨Seances #SwiftiePit #SwiftiePitch #YA #SPF #T Poster cred: @KT_Carlisle

@cnnbrk That's awful.

James Gracey, a University of Alabama student missing in Spain, has been found dead, police say cnn.it/4dwIMXi

Ethical and environmental considerations aside: It's a slippery slope. AI needs to be fact-checked, too. So relying solely on AI to assist can be a huge risk if the user doesn't have the discernment to know when the AI makes a mistake. When I was in my editing courses, AI was talked about a lot as a useful tool, even to editors. The keyword is "tool." Not to be relied upon too heavily.

How do you feel about using AI as a writer? (By this I mean using it to edit, fact check, and provide feedback)

@ElChandler So glad you said this! I thought it was just me.

I feel like I’m going insane, but surely the IOS keyboard is making a ton more mistakes than before! It’s always getting words wrong 😬😬

@rrreadsbooks I was just thinking about this earlier. I'm tempted to not engage with any content that has an image. Sad, isn't it?

I miss when you’d see a picture of something really cool online and didn’t have to wonder if it was AI generated

I mean... Is it AI because it's really bad or is it AI because it's really good? Can someone clarify? Trying to decide if I should be offended or flattered when someone inevitably accuses me of using genAI in the future.

@mrmikeMTL Yup. Just went on a lovely walk with her this evening.

Are you still friends with your high school best friend?

@hannahgnagle Congratulations! Fingers crossed!

now officially and successfully out of the maybe pile for this one 🥳🥺

@DBecker1990 @rachkmc Excellent advice! 🤣 I have done that at times, planted clues after the fact.

@DCooperHo @rachkmc Don't write chapter one. Write what you want CH 1 to accomplish. Then pretend you wrote CH 1. Later on, you’ll get to CH 12 and realize only your CH 1 outline mentions the love interest owns a Tucan. You’ll go back, and put a birdcage in CH 3. Viola! Foreshadowing!!

"should my book start here?" often the answer is no. especially if it is exposition or backstory or things that can be woven into flashbacks or dialogue with a sentence or two of context later on

@Kacey_Combs For characters? Full names. Though have one character who has to constantly correct another when he uses a nickname for her…that is until it grows on her as a term of endearment. That’s the only time I’ve used nicknames. It has to be relevant to the plot, I think.

Who remembers Josh Kelly? Alex Warren gives me strong Josh Kelly vibes.

And now I appear to be invisible. This is why SM is bad for people.

@sciencegirl Moths. Definitely the moths.

Which bed are you picking

@sciencegirl Definitely not the tarantulas. Their little hairs are super itchy! Course, I don't want to be strangled or chewed to death, either. Perhaps the tarantulas are a safer bet.

Yikes... I thought I was over this rejection thing. Agent like then rejection so fast it gives you whiplash is a whole new level of #queryinghell. I'm so over this.

@SDDonovan Scrivener.

Scrivener, Open Office, or straight Google Docs, which do you use to write?

@Kacey_Combs Not in the first 5 is the vibe I’m getting. Depending on the length of your first chapter, possibly not even then. I moved all my backstory from the first chapter to the second. Don’t know if it’s done its job yet. Still in the trenches!

Controversial topic: how much backstory should be added in the first five pages? First chapter? When is the best time to pepper in backstory? #WritingCommunity #agents #editors #readers

@brclothwrites Still true!

Did you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day as a kid? Is it true you would get pinched if you didn’t have on green?

@MLA_Matthew @LDRexauthor @saraduranauthor Congrats to you both!

NEW CLIENT ALERT! I'm delighted to welcome @saraduranauthor to the Megibow Literary family. Sara's queer adult literary sci-fi quite literally swept me off my feet and I could not be any luckier to be it's champion. It's scary Brokeback Mountain on an isolated moon. Hellooo?

@hannahgnagle Good luck! I haven’t had any 🍀 in the “maybe” pile so far.

once again intently staring at a new maybe pile status 👀🔮 #amquerying