Jami Sheets

I #amdrafting a new book! And I'm in that stage where I'm GLAD no one picked up my other books because it's a departure from my norm and that's fun. Anyway, summer camp reunion + curses + murder. 9k words in.

Kudos for the good fight in those comments. I was particularly tickled at the insistence that a book no one has read could definitely be published and be written off as a little mistake.

What a goober.

It's giving "They're intimidated by my large brain and that's why they won't sign me" vibes.

Query letters are literally designed to filter out people like this because who on earth would want to work with them???

Saved this little baby from being a breakfast for crows this morning so now I'm just watching him through a window hoping his mama comes back for him 😭

could some agent please just offer to represent my book, i'm so tired.

Yours looks like mine and I think we may be the only two doodlers on BlueSky. Everyone else is good at this stuff.

I'm not so into mood boards and character commissions, but here's a doodle I made featuring four / five bitches from THE BITCH LIST.

Hello, #BluePitHype!

I'm a women's fiction author querying my latest manuscript where High Fidelity and Mean Girls make sweet love and come out with a funny, music-obsessed ode to female friendship.

This is my fourth manuscript and I've been writing seriously for about eight years. Why? IDFK.

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I just received a response from the agent I submitted an R&R to...two years ago...asking if the manuscript was still available.

I said yes, and also pitched the whole-ass book I've written, revised, and rewrote again in the time it took her to respond.

I really am grateful but JFC this industry...

I am familiar with this problem myself! I tried writing a romance and it ended up more WF -- but I prefer it that way? But then I pitched it as a romance and everything went awry from there. The expectations of a "romance" is too constricting, especially as a debut.

A few years ago, I was querying AND looking for a new senior level job. I have literally never been so depressed.

Oh.

#amquerying

Any minute (or day) now...

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When every submission before yours in a red smiley face and you're just waiting for the inevitable:

#amquerying #querytracker

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The Beach Boys were a mainstay of my childhood. My first album was their #1 hits. In college, we spent a week dissecting Pet Sounds in my History of Rock and Roll class. I walked down the aisle to "God Only Knows."

What a loss, but at least it's a good reason to revisit some of my favorites.

I would only notify agents who have the full IF I plan to undertake the revision. If you believe it will make you book stronger, it's worth losing your place in line (IMO).

I would not notify outstanding queries, only let them know you're revising if they ask for a full.

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I revised the rewrite! Now a readthrough and we should be ready to relaunch the #amquerying ship.

💀

Now to reVISE the reWRITE that was originally supposed to just be a six-week reVISION but here we are five months later.

Wait, where's the satire?

Oh god, same. The idea of completing something like nanowrimo at this point is laughable. But small word counts make books, too!

Y'ALL I AM ALMOST DONE WITH MY REWRITE #amrevising

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2 #agents on v1 of the MS: "The book is good, the writing is excellent, the relationships authentic, the premise is super smart, but I don't know how to position it in the market."

Ow, my pride. Can't help but think that v2 is DOA. #amquerying

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I keep taking these breaks from my revision and I keep coming back surprised that I haven't progressed further on said breaks. Will I ever finish? Honestly TBD.

My Air is from 2021. It's gotten absolutely painful for Zoom + other app (daily user) but I've never found a computer that processes large Google docs well. I stopped using them -- I only draft in Novlr and edit in Word now, and I read complete drafts (for myself or friends) on Kindle.

On Wednesdays, I get the pleasure of wading through education news from the eight states in our regional association and I think this might be the grimmest week since the fascist Cheeto took office.

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Waiting for two semi-reasonable Republicans I have on my Facebook who have something to say about literally everything to chime in on Signalgate like

No fucking manners these days.