Practical guides to finding manuscript feedback, revising your work, and preparing to query literary agents—with examples and tools you can use.
A calm, practical walk through what to examine in your agent list, query letter, and opening pages before you decide what to change.
Read the guideA practical, printable checklist for preparing your manuscript, query, synopsis, pages, and agent list before you start submitting.
Read the guideA workflow for building a researched agent list from the tools writers actually use, with a printable agent-research worksheet.
Read the guideOriginal query and opening-page examples that show how to tell an unclear pitch from a slow opening, and decide what to revise next.
Read the guideWhat a query letter review can and cannot do, the feedback worth having, and how to use it before you submit to agents.
Read the guideThe kinds of feedback available, what each does well, and how to ask focused questions that produce notes you can act on.
Read the guideWhere to find readers, how to arrange a free or paid read, and what to do when people go quiet or have already read an earlier draft.
Read the guideWhy an out-of-order QueryTracker timeline happens, what it can and can't tell you, and how to respond without misreading it.
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