I entered #Pitmad (and #PitchWars) in 2014 with another manuscript (that I thought was AWESOME). I tweeted, I queried, I cried and I begged, but it was to no avail. So I did some thinking, I took the lessons learned from the contests and the gems gleaned in the rejection letters and I polished them up, nice and shiny so…
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10 things I learned in the query trenches
I’m super stoked that I have signed a publishing contract with Literary Wanderlust (a Denver, Colorado based traditional publisher) for my manuscript, A Fractured Land. But the process was not easy. I learned some lessons along the way. If you are in the query trenches, these might help you Twitter is important. The writing community there is warm and…
Melissa A Volker 