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Kyra M. Nelson

1 year

After over a decade of querying, it feels absolutely unreal that I get to announce I'm now represented by Nicole Eisenbraun and Ginger Clark of @ClarkLiterary . I loved their enthusiasm for my grumpy x grumpier YA romantasy, and can't wait to see what we do with it together.

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Kyra M. Nelson

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2 months

Back from my hike so let's do this. For context, I have "won" #NaNoWriMo ten times and previously collaborated with them on their official channel. I'm no longer involved with them for... all the reasons. So some alternative resources I've collected.

Kyra M. Nelson

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2 months

So would anyone be interested in a thread of alternative resources to NaNoWriMo

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2 years

I'm rebranding. I'm no longer "unpublished." I'm underground. My beta readers are all hipsters. You probably never heard of me.

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4 months

I once had an agent reject me on an MS that was hyper specific to their MSWL and within minutes of the rejection tweet about reading a query they loved the premise of but didn't like the execution of, and yes it was demoralzing.

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2 years

It's late but I just talked to my sister, an actor & musician who is studying therapy with an emphasis on creative practice and mental health. I want to share a few points we that came up that were interesting to me.

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2 years

"I write for myself first and foremost" and "spending over a hundred hours working on a book that only three people will ever read really sucks" are thoughts that can in fact exist simultaneously.

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2 years

If I'm quiet lately it's because I'm on my fifth time querying with the 18th book I've written, and have a 0% request rate and I just don't know what to do with that. And yes I am writing the next thing (and the next next thing) but it sure doesn't feel like it *matters*

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2 years

Logically I know it's fine to query agents who've passed on previous books but it's lowkey embarrassing when you've queried three books in as many years. Just like annually sliding into their inbox all bernie sanders voice "I am once again asking you to consider working with me"

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Kyra M. Nelson

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3 years

Spending 10 years honing your YA fantasy craft just to start querying and be told the market is oversaturated has the same energy as waiting in line at Disneyland for two hours just for the ride to shut down indefinitely when you get to the front.

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1 year

What's happening in publishing is actually a lot like what is happening in film and streaming. A lot of it boils down to constantly chasing blockbusters without supporting the bread and butter base.

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@KyraMNelson

1 year

White readers... do this breakdown for the books you've read this year. What percentage of your reading list is BIPOC? Your own reading list is the most important place to start.

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1 year

All right, fuck it. I wasn't going to do this on main but this just kicked me over the edge. I've spent the last year recording every english language fiction deal in Publisher's Marketplace, googling over 4000 authors, and this is what the current book deal landscape looks like

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2 years

I actually find the idea that a pitch event doesn't have value without participation from agents/editors/presses to be really sad. To me it reinforces the idea that the value in our work is determined by gatekeepers. Peer visibility absolutely has value.

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@KyraMNelson

4 months

Why does my cat look like he's scandalized by my manuscript

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Kyra M. Nelson

@KyraMNelson

2 years

Let's talk about agent feedback because I get a lot of author questions about what various agent feedback means and how to apply it.

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@KyraMNelson

2 months

If you love the little graphs that break down your goal and show progress, try Pacemaker: You can create goals based on different metrics, eg word count or hours or chapters. You can customize the pacing (eg, harder at beginning and leveling off).

Pacemaker

A Word Count Planner for Writers and Students

www.pacemaker.press

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Kyra M. Nelson

@KyraMNelson

7 years

It's cov-FEE-FEE, not cov-FAY-FAY. #covfefe

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@KyraMNelson

3 years

If you're a querying author feeling like even a 10% request rate is unattainable, I see you. Your book's value isn't determined by request rate ❤️

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Kyra M. Nelson

@KyraMNelson

3 years

Authors are told that if they want to be published, they should treat their writing like a career. This advice is almost always used to admonish authors to work harder and never to tell authors that their writing is a professional enterprise that deserves professional respect.

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@KyraMNelson

4 months

I just think querying is hard enough without authors having to read about their books being rejected on twitter.

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@KyraMNelson

1 year

A lot of the querying advice from authors who haven't queried in the past couple years has the vibes of boomers giving financial advice to millennials.

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Kyra M. Nelson

@KyraMNelson

2 years

1. The idea that you'll "make it" if you "just keep writing" is pretty unique to publishing. Nobody tells actors or musicians or visual artists that. My sister's actual words were "I would die if someone suggested that to me."

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Kyra M. Nelson

@KyraMNelson

3 years

I can't tell you how important it is to make friends with other writers. For emotional support, for promoting your work, for networking with other industry professionals. Make friends. Genuine friends, not just as a business transaction.

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@KyraMNelson

2 months

4thewords gamifies the writing experience. You fight monsters by writing words (eg, you defeat a Wignow by writing 444 words) and can make progress on quests by writing. There's also a lively community and multiplayer mode. Free & paid plans available.

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2 years

Querying authors... you may not be owed a lot. But you ARE owed respect. If you engage in the industry as a professional, you deserve professional respect. End of story.

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2 years

AND the idea that everyone gets there eventually is often used to gloss over how unfair publishing is. The idea that some people have to work a bit harder is more palatable if we buy into the idea that everyone ends up with their publishing HEA eventually.

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2 years

Querying authors, it might be good to brace yourselves. A lot of agents are closed and trying to clean out inboxes before the holidays. Seen several people talk about getting an onslaught of Rs today. So maybe be mentally prepared and take care of yourselves! #amquerying

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2 months

I think there are two primary benefits to NaNoWriMo. One is the productivity goals/tracking. The other is the community. And I think there are a lot of tools out there to help with both of these, often in ways that are more flexible than what NaNo offers.

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2 years

3. Related, writing is a more isolated endeavor than a lot of other art. The communities we do have are rarely in-person or local. They're also incredibly cliquey and your ability to participate is largely impacted by the goalposts you've reached.

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@KyraMNelson

3 years

When my extended family asks to read my book

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Kyra M. Nelson

@KyraMNelson

2 years

We talked a bit about how this idea really shapes the way that we as writers frame failure and rejection. Basically, that we often use "just keep writing" instead of finding healthy, sustainable ways to process feelings of rejection and failure.

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2 years

5. The mentality that everyone who works hard enough will makes people who decide to leave for their own wellbeing feel guilty. It places all the fault on the author and none on a brutal, and broken, system.

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2 years

2. Publishing has fewer amateur outlets than many other types of creative practice. There's not a great equivalent of community theater or open mic or local galleries for authors. Especially not where we can have an in-person connection with an audience/other artists.

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2 years

I'm going to regret this... but maybe not policing people's emotions has to go both ways. I have never told anyone not to celebrate their wins. But I'm pretty damn tired of being told I have to be constantly upbeat about the success of complete strangers.

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2 years

I think it's useful to remember that agents often see their own rejections as a quick one-off while authors usually experience rejections in the aggregate. Agents only see themselves as one door that's closing, while authors often are staring down a long hallway of locked doors.

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6. There's a lot of survivor bias in our publishing advice. And we are very bad both at recognizing it and understanding how it impacts authors.

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@KyraMNelson

2 years

If I ever get an agent/book deal, the last thing I want is for people to use me as a poster child for "if you just keep writing you'll get there!" The only reasons I can still pursue pub are privilege and unhealthy habits, and neither should be celebrated as inspirational.

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2 years

Temporary hiatus break because I ran some querying stats to try and quantify just how different my experience has been since querying in 2016 re: request rates, response times, etc. Note: The next tweet includes request rate stats. Skip if you don't like seeing those!

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Kyra M. Nelson

@KyraMNelson

8 months

2012-13: Queried first book 2013-2015: interned at an agency 2014-2017: Queried second book 2020-2021: Queried third book 2021-2022: Queried fourth book 2022-2023 Queried fifth book June 2023: Offer I drafted 18 books between sending my first query and signing.

C.J. Subko 🖤 (updates only)

@sarcasmlemons

8 months

It's 2024 and querying is different now. So, let's skip the Cinderella stories. Tell me about your LONG, harrowing, and yet successful querying journeys!

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2 years

Mini-thread today on two tricks that might help if you get stuck pantsing and/or fast drafting. These are my favorite secret weapons during #NaNoWriMo when I'm not sure what's going to come next in the story. YMMV, but I've found these extremely helpful.

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4 years

Ok #RevPit , as I'm staring down my shortlist we're going to do a thread and it's going to get a little ~personal~ and deal with fun feelings like inadequacy and frustration and hopelessness. Because putting your work out there can really, really suck.

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@KyraMNelson

2 years

Even when people acknowledge that querying is bad right now, it's usually made to sound like some temporary turbulence that will get better soon. Just keep writing, it'll probably be better by the time your next book is ready. It's not getting better. It's likely to get worse.

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2 years

4. Rejections are not all weighted equally. Or as my sister said, rejections often have a compounding effect. Getting a lot of rejections may give you thicker skin OR it might make you feel more hopeless the more you get.

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4 years

Me as an editor: three act structure, conflict and resolution, emotional arcs, character agency, stakes Me as an author: what the hell is plot

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2 years

Not infrequently, authors on here start talking timelines for their books (how long they spent querying, which # manuscript was their debut, etc). Let your takeaway from this be "this process varies a lot" and not "I'm failing because other people are succeeding faster than me."

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2 years

This is a very random smattering of thoughts and I might elaborate on several of these later. I did think she had some very interesting insights on the way we as author's frame rejection. And just how much we've primed ourselves for toxic positivity.

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@KyraMNelson

1 year

Heard this wild rumor that an agent can like your book enough they want to rep it? Can anyone confirm this is true? Sounds fake.

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Kyra M. Nelson

@KyraMNelson

1 year

Bittersweet announcement today. After nearly nine years, I am closing shop on my freelance editing business. I'm so appreciative of all the authors over the years who have trusted me with their words and let me guide them in achieving their visions.

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3 years

Seeing a lot of "I didn't get into #PitchWars but got my dream agent right after" posts. Nothing against these posts, but they're still focused on goalposts that are largely outside your control as an author and not always helpful when you feel down.

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2 years

Let's talk about the YA fantasy market. Now, this is just going to be what I've observed and is consequently limited. However, I follow this market closely and have quite a few industry connections to draw anecdotes from.

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2 years

Retweeting this for absolutely no reason at all today. Since I can already hear the "no writing is ever wasted" and the "market will come back around" replies... Please, not today. Let authors just mourn that shelving a book due to bad market luck sucks phenomenally.

Kyra M. Nelson

@KyraMNelson

3 years

Spending 10 years honing your YA fantasy craft just to start querying and be told the market is oversaturated has the same energy as waiting in line at Disneyland for two hours just for the ride to shut down indefinitely when you get to the front.

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4 years

In light of the news that the upcoming Batman film will be darker and grittier than ever before, I'd like to share a few thoughts on "darkness." We have a bad habit of treating darkness as a virtue of art. It's not.

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2 years

For me, rejections on my fifth book feel entirely different than on my second book. Rejections on a book that centered on asexual identity felt entirely different than rejections that didn't. Rejections felt different when I had more craft to improve than when I was more skilled.

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2 months

With Pacemaker, you can even create group challenges for some of that community fun. Pacemaker is freemium software, and there's lots you can do with the free account.

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4 months

I've got thick skin but like who was that helping. There was no actionable feedback. Just "this is a concept I wanted but no to you specifically." And that was without them explicitly saying they hoped someone else wrote it better🙄

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3 years

Seeing a lot of tweets meant to be reassuring about how cold queries still work fine. The thing is, cold querying is brutal right now, so I get authors feeling like yet another opportunity has disappeared.

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3 years

Looks like lots of people are discovering #RevPit . Welcome! As one of the founders, I'd love to talk a little about what to expect and how RevPit might be different from some of the other contests out there.

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4 years

While I'm waiting for my #RevPit subs to come in, how about a thread on the dreaded synopsis. I think a lot of the concern over the synopsis comes from the fact that a lot of authors don't really know how it's used. It's hard to write when you don't understand your objective.

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2 years

Traumatized characters can exist in romcoms because traumatized people deserve HEAs. I've written a handful of queer romcoms. They all touch on queer trauma in some way because to me falling in love means confronting that. That doesn't make it less of a love story.

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Kyra M. Nelson

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11 months

I love seeing people shouting out their books, and congrats if you are getting agent attention on twitter. But fwiw, it's also ok if agents aren't sliding into your DMs. I have a pretty sizable platform for an unpubbed author, and no agents ever slid into my DMs.

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@KyraMNelson

2 months

Already have a writing discord and want to do sprints there? Invite Sprinto to the discord to run sprints in the platform. Members can opt in, post their start and end word counts. Very easy to use and great for casual spriting with friends.

Sprinto

Discord sprint bot. Bring writers together.

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@KyraMNelson

2 months

A little self promo here I guess, but virtual write-ins are a thing. The WordNerds vlog does them at least every other week live, and you can go write along to older videos as well.

Virtual Write-In: 08/18/2024

Join us for some word sprints!

www.youtube.com

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@KyraMNelson

2 years

Interesting to see people in my replies suggesting I just don't have thick enough skin for publishing. I've written 19 books and queried 5 of them over the past ten years. I wouldn't still be here if I wasn't resilient as hell.

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just two coauthors coping with their book dying in the query trenches in very normal ways

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3 years

Querying is the worst thing to ever happen to me and I couldn't be more excited to be doing it again send tweet.

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2 years

I don't know how we expect authors to understand they deserve professional response times from agents as a client when everything about querying is designed to make them feel unworthy of an agent's time. Querying primes authors to expect poor treatment from agents.

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4 years

This is a depressing thread, huh? I'll end with this. I don't regret querying my heart book because when you love it enough, you want to give your story every chance you can. Even if it hurts. I believe that story is worth all of it. And so is yours.

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2 months

Also, throwing out there. 50k in a month was good for me for awhile, but it's not for everyone. One of the things I like about these resources is enhanced ability to make goals that actually work for you instead of a blanket 50k standard.

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2 years

Currently unable to query 40% of my agent list because they're either closed or they/someone at their agency still has my last MS outstanding from January. I get why agents need to close/take awhile to respond but there sure don't feel like a lot of doors open these days.

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2 years

I think what frustrates me most about a lot of the recent querying discourse is that I would like to be treated as a professional, not a starry-eyed dreamer. The difference between "professional experiencing a professional set back" vs "dreamer who hasn't paid dues" is huge.

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3 years

I've seen a lot of agents opening to queries and getting bombarded by hundreds of queries within a day or two of opening. Some insight? Last book I queried about 20% of my agent list was closed the entire 8 months I was sending queries.

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2 months

A lot of writing software has built-in goal tracking services. I use NovelPad, which has pretty useful functionality that's conviently in the same platform I'm writing in. Writing software can be a bit spendy, but if you're using it anyway...

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4 years

Authors: My book is a mess Editors:

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2 years

LRT: Additionally, I find myself focusing less on giving advice about the mechanics of a query and more on managing the emotions of the query process. So here's the advice I will give writers querying in 2022.

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2 years

I tired my hand at fanfic for the first time. And like you mean to tell me that I've been having my writing absolutely slaughtered in the query trenches when I could have been having internet strangers call my writing precious? Wow. I've been bamboozled.

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7 months

Announcing #ShelfLuv , a positivity event for shelved manuscripts. The event runs April 20th, details can be found at the link below. I hope you'll join me in celebrating all our dead books!

#ShelfLuv 2024 -

I'm so excited to introduce #ShelfLuv, a Twitter event dedicated to celebrating the books we've shelved. This is a memorial for our dead books. The books that died in the query trenches. The books...

kyramnelson.com

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2 months

So would anyone be interested in a thread of alternative resources to NaNoWriMo

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2 years

Potentially a hot take, but I think it's time to retire the expectation that authors only query one manuscript at a time. This seems like the most reasonable trade off for longer wait times on requests.

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4 years

Some non-ableist words you can use instead of "crazy" or "insane": absurd, astonishing, ridiculous, preposterous, ludicrous, outrageous, unbelievable, astounding, staggering, startling, incredible, unimaginable, unthinkable, extraordinary, astounding, impressive, stupendous

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Me writing a book normally: [has no idea what I'm doing] Me writing a book during #NaNoWriMo : [has no idea what I'm doing but faster]

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2 years

It's unfortunate that querying requires such thick skin when writing so often requires honing your sensitivity.

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2 years

I know people typically post their queries after getting an agent, but would anybody be interested in seeing my queries that ~haven't~ gotten an agent? Because I spent a lot of time on them and wouldn't mind showing them off.

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I benefited so much from personalized feedback I received on queries and requested material back in 2016, when feedback was much more the norm. Really feeling for authors trying to find their way with nothing but form rejections in the new querying environment.

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Twas the night before #RevPit and all through the feed Not an editor was resting, getting ready to read The subs were all polished by the authors with care in hopes that an editor would love their flair

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4 years

A (non-exhaustive) thread of some Asian YA you can support

Joan 🦚 mostly on insta

@joanhewrites

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as pointless as it feels right now, our words and art do matter. support asian creators today and every day

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The last year I did freelance editing was hard because I had so many people coming to me with these super polished manuscripts and this utter discouragement they weren't getting picked up. A lot of people hoping I had some secret that would get them their "yes".

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Feel free to comment with other resources you've found. I got a lot out of participating in NaNo over the years, but I think there are other ways to capture what they did without supporting a trashfire organization.

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Being an author requires thick skin BUT having thick skin is not the same as never needing positive reinforcement. Thick skin means ability to move beyond rejections, it doesn't mean you can't also need positive responses to your work.

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"Maybe you should self-publish." I write romcoms for ace teens. Self pubbed books don't end up in libraries and would be much less accessible to the audience I write for, the people who actually need my book. The ones trad pub grossly undeserves.

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You having fun yet, #RevPit ? Please take a moment to thank the wonderful editors who make this possible. Particularly the board (not me, I'm just comedic relief) who are busting their butts to respond to emails and keep things running smoothly.

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Agents, if you have preferences on how authors query you, please put them on your website. Resources on querying ettiquette are often outdated and incosistent source to source. Don't expect authors to be able to guess your preferences even if you think they're querying norms.

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Watching this tweet blow up and just waiting for people to helpfully come tell me the agent was probably trying to be nice and it's just business and I need to have thicker skin. Anyway. This happened. It made me sad. I kept writing anyway 🤷‍♀️

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I know agents can see my tweets and I try my hardest to be professional. But sometimes I really just wish I could say my content is not for you and focus on talking to authors about industry challenges without bending over backwards to avoid offending agents.

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If you don't know how to respond to an author who's struggling with querying try "That's so hard, I hope your work finds the advocates it deserves." It acknowledges struggle without verging into toxic positivity.

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It's true that pitch events are not your one ticket to representation and lots of authors find success querying, but it's okay to feel sad about not getting likes. It's okay to feel sad at any point in the finding-an-agent process, because it's just really emotionally draining.

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A funny thing about being a querying author is that you're expected to follow a ton of etiquette rules of the writing community while receiving none of the benefits of being part of that community.

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Let querying authors complain. You have already crossed the hurdle that so many of us haven't and we shouldn't be expected to keep smiling while each of the rejections cut us deep and let us bleed.

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This has been my timeline the past two days

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2 years

Current #RevPit mood

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Kyra M. Nelson

@KyraMNelson

2 years

Given recent discussions surrounding YA, it felt time to write this thing I've been scared of writing about how transitioning from YA romance to adult romance as an ace reader has kind of sucked.

Navigating Adult Romance Books as an Ace Reader -

This post has been on my mind for about a year, but I've put it off because it felt like opening such a can of worms. With a resurgence in adult vs YA discourse on Twitter, though, as well as a...

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Kyra M. Nelson

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Just submitted my winner and runner-up for #RevPit 😬 Let me say, I really could have worked with so many of you. You absolutely crushed my MSWL. And the overall talent was the best I've seen in my 4 years doing the contest. Such cool books and authors. You all are amazing.

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