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Querying My Novel

Querying My Novel

I’ve been querying my novel for about two months now, and so far it’s basically emailing out or pasting into Query Manager and waiting, punctuated by surprisingly nice form letters. I mean, I got A LOT of rejections sending out my short stories (and also...

Content Warnings for my Novel

So, content warnings. A.S. Akkalon was talking about them over here and included a link to a Trigger Warning database. What I’ve been sending in my queries (yeah, #amquerying): “Content warnings: Pet death, partner death, child death, reference to torture,...

Year In Review

My novel started the year at 65,000 words (draft 1.5), increased to 120,000 words (draft 2) to address developmental concerns, and decreased to the current 96,000 words. I feel like it’s structurally there and am just looking for things like how many times...

Music History Novel Research

Felix Mendelssohn. Know him? He wrote Elijah, among other things. Like this: He also has the dubious honor of being singled out as proof that Jews are incapable of true music in Wagner’s antisemitic essay on the topic. Fuck Wagner! Mendelssohn’s...

Yet Another Novel Update

Hilariously, there is a part of my author brain that insists that my book is AMAZEBALLS and will be deeply beloved by anyone who reads it. It is clearly untrue that my book is for everyone and this is okay. (So far, my book seems to be for people over 30 who love cats...

So. Why vampires?

Vampires are interesting! They’re the most “human” monster, and they usually represent what society fears. Look at the OG: Dracula. (He’s not the first vampire in English literature–Polidori’s The Vampyre, our lesbian queen...

Novel in Progress Query Draft

All Abraham has ever wanted is connection: connection to his family, connection to his Jewish faith and community, and connection to an audience with whom he can share his love for the violin. But almost two hundred years ago, his musical patron turned him into a...

Novel Update

Quick Aside: Locus briefly mentioned our reading at WisCon. So! Novel update! According to Scrivener, it’s 99,000+ words; according to Word it’s over 100,000 words. NICE! Where I am: So, I now have three POV characters, and the consistent feedback...

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