"If This Doesn’t Work Out, It’s Going on Wattpad": Querying for the Third Time
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"If This Doesn’t Work Out, It’s Going on Wattpad": Querying for the Third Time
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Back in the same room after last week’s voice notes, Kelton is fighting off the sickness she warned us about and admits she didn’t touch her edits. Instead, she spent the week making a mock cover for her rom-com out of a stack of old magazines. Krisserin, meanwhile, queried three agents at 8:20 a.m. on one agent’s deadline day without rereading her letter.
Now that the pages have actually been read, they get into the notes. Krisserin explains how she cut Parasocial’s opening to fit a 10-page limit without losing the twist, and what’s different about querying this book a third time. Kelton hears why her book sounds exactly like her, why her main character needs a reason to want so much more, and why her heroine needs to know where she is in the room. That opens up a bigger conversation about present tense, flashbacks, and dual timelines, while Krisserin’s IAIA mentor pushes her to write in a tense that feels like writing with her left hand.
Plus: hyperrealistic animal puppets, a bird twist, Katabasis as a literal guide to hell, and a spirited fight over the one-line pitch for Dungeon Crawler Carl.
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