Rukmini ✨Querying✨

Stand up, Yumi Chung! X The Girl Who Drank the Moon A chess whiz journeys through India’s enchanted Blue Mountains to reclaim her chess moves from a phantom of sadness—and win the prize money that could save her stepdad from jail. #questpit #MG #F Setbacks to Superpowers 🌟

@SuzElsonAuthor So sorry to hear this, Suzanne. I hope you find the power to get through this. Sending you lots of healing vibes. 💕

#WritingCommunity #KidLit #Amwriting #Amquerying Hi friends. Haven’t been on here lately. Just found out my husband of 32y has been sleeping w 1 of my good friends for the past 2y. Sharing this bc I need support, even a text. Struggling to put 1 foot in front of the other😔

@CAS_author Yay!!! Good luck 🤞

I’m about to catapult myself into the querying trenches this weekend! The last 8 months consisted of me spending A LOT of time perfecting UNDER THE CARPET after working with an incredible editor. This story is amazing and I’m so proud of it. Querying makes me anxious and I feel like throwing up but we’re doing it! 😮‍💨😅🤩 #querying #WritingCommunity

@CharliRaeBooks Amazing!!! Congrats!!

✨ Queried my MG novel The Under on Aug 3 (2:43 AM). 📩 Full request hit my inbox less than 24 hours later. Excited. Grateful. Nervous as hell. 🫠 #amquerying #amwriting #kidlit #WritingCommunity

@kbowmanwriter Agree! I feel the same way. How do you go about finding a critique partner? I found one through X and she’s lovely.

🧵 2/2 Instead, I found writers at the same stage as me and we beta read for each other. It was the best thing I ever did, because we all learnt a lot from each other. If you can do that, I really recommend it! Plus, you can never have too many writer friends 🥰

The first two manuscripts I wrote, I paid for professional feedback/edits. I did not get an offer of rep, nor many requests. (In fact, my first got NONE 😭) The third manuscript I wrote, I did NOT pay for professional feedback/edits, but got multiple offers of rep. 🧵1/2

@HLCarter_Author Thanks for sharing. I’m hope you find your dream agent soon. Wishing you all the luck!!!

@RukminiThakore I've been querying this particular manuscript for a couple of months. I was agented for a while before that and parted with my agent. Before THAT, I'd queried for 3.5 years (with different manuscripts). It's definitely tough sometimes!

Two rejections within 7 minutes of each other. Oof! #amquerying

@Nattykbrown Good luck! Good luck!

My first full request! I may not get any more but I’m so pleased this manuscript has caught an agent’s interest

@LexiHeathermoor Hahaha this is hilarious! I think glaring is great… everyone should glare away

Things my agent has revealed through edits: 🖤My crutch words are just, still, even, always, &…hell? 😂 🖤Everyone glares. All the time. Which, with Remy being Remy kinda tracks. 🖤I have a real affinity for exclamation marks & I refuse to be ashamed. But I WILL edit them out.

@lhallwriter Complete and utter silence 🤫 🤣

Writers do you prefer to work with background noise or music or complete silence?

@JennaSchmenna That’s amazing!! Congratulations. 🥳🥳 I am waiting for the day an agent signs with me as a new untested rando 😊

agenting milestone--I've been at this for 17 months & just surpassed half a million dollars in book sales 🥳 this is 100% thanks to my authors who signed with me as a new, untested rando. THANK YOU. I owe you guys so much. Y'all gifted me my dream career. k, gonna go cry now

@BonamYoungBooks Thank you! I needed to hear just this today (I’m in the querying trenches, need I say more 😅) How was your journey from writer to published author? Did you go down the querying route? How was it?

A peek inside my MG contemporary fantasy — where magic meets mayhem, and every stumble sparks something extraordinary 🌟#WritingCommmunity #amwriting #amquerying

@SuzElsonAuthor Good luck!!

@RukminiThakore Not yet! Fingers crossed!

Any writer friends from the middle grade world received any requests? #smallpitch

@kmgathman Hear ya…

How I feel watching everyone get their #smallpitch requests 🥲 #querytrenches #amquerying

@Small_Pitch Made it! Yay.

As a reminder, you can check your pitch(es) made it to the database at this link: database.smallpitch.org

@Stacystories01 Thank you! I don’t have a fully finished alternate manuscript but definitely makes me want to keep writing!

@RukminiThakore It’s definitely a soft no, but also a sign they see real potential in your writing. Maybe the genre wasn’t a fit. Will you be sending them something new?

Hi #WritingCommunity #amquerying any ideas on what it means when an agent says they’re not interested in this particular manuscript but would love to read anything else I’m working on? Is it a genre misfit or something about my voice or sth else?

@betancourtlit Thank you! That’s somewhat encouraging cause I have received a similar message from two different agents ;) I don’t have a fully finished alternate manuscript but it is definitely motivating me to keep writing ✍️

@RukminiThakore It could be that they aren't confident they can place that particular book with a publisher, but they like your writing style.

@pcarterwriter Thank you!

@RukminiThakore it can be, but it can also be common form rejection language. good luck <3

@StephenMat4306 @birdie_es Thanks, Stephen! I’ll get in touch if I need your services.

I’ll see your form rejection and raise you another query submission #WritingCommunity