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Slushwire Week 5 - 164 alerts for writers:
👽 Reddit: 21
🦋 Bluesky: 44
📋 Critiques: 30
🕵️ Agents: 60
📬 Openings: 9
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🫖 Just a little sip of decaf rejection before bed:
"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long"
— Louise Brown
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"
— Upton Sinclair
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- Rejected 23 times
- Became the bestselling science fiction novel of all time
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ever heard this one?
— Frank Herbert, "Dune"
📖🦈 Query Shark anyone?
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2009/10/
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One of the 👽 /writing 👽 greats:
“Show, don’t tell” should be rephrased as “don’t spoonfeed i...
https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/196ipgx
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— Octavio Paz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavio_Paz
🌤️ daily quote time!
"We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act"
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🌊 If rejection's flooding your query trenches...
"Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story"
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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- "The girl doesn't, it seems to me, have a special perception or feeling which would lift that boo...
- Rejected by multiple publishers
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ever heard this one?
— Anne Frank, "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl"
often reminded of how valuable Query Shark 📖🦈 is - what a legacy
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2008/12/
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Classic from r/writing 👽 Top 200:
Amy Poehler pretty much nails the writing life
https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/56bwu8
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Fresh from the Slushwire 💌 wiretap:
"[QCrit] Adult Contemporary Romance - THE LONG CHANGE (80K..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1qnx3cp
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"He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead"
— John Keats
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🫖 Just a little sip of decaf rejection before bed:
"Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work"
— James Lee Burke
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👽 r/writing Hall of Famer:
Hugh Howey (multi-million $ indie writer of Wool) Wrote an A...
https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/kszp6m
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🌤️ daily quote time!
"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself"
— John Locke
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❤️🔥 come warm your cockles beside rejection's cozy flame...
"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long"
— Louise Brown
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- "For your own sake do not publish this book"
- Banned and rejected
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ever heard this one?
— D.H. Lawrence, "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
📖🦈 some legendary Query Shark action
https://queryshark.blogspot.com/2022/09/
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Fresh from the Slushwire 🍧 wiretap:
Post from @marchsoloway.bsky.social:
https://bsky.app/profile/marchsoloway.bsky.social/post/3mcztqwvboc2k
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🌤️ daily quote time!
"One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself"
— Jack London
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🌊 If rejection's flooding your query trenches...
"I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I’m going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box"
— James Lee Burke
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all-time top 200 r/PubTips throwback:
[PubTip] To People Who Deletes Their Posts, Please Don't Giv...
https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/jkfztq
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"I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that ear...
— Pat Conroy
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daily rejection inspiration:
"Failure is success if we learn from it"
— Malcolm Forbes
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- Rejected 12 times
- Bloomsbury gave small advance
- series became most successful in history
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