Throwing in the Towel: Why I'm Not Querying the Rest of the Year
Hello Funny People, This post is going to be a bit of a downer, so if that's not your thing, consider this your warning. It's been a wild six months, but I've made a decision that, as hard as it for me to admit defeat, is probably for the best. For the time being anyway. So after working hard to find an agent willing to pick up one of the two projects I've been querying since January, I decided that the best thing for me to do now is simply to stop. I've been contemplating this decision for a little while, thinking that a temporary hiatus would be enough, but I'm not one for half-measures. So, as of the end of September, I'm withdrawing from the query trenches. Exactly why I am is a bit more complicated, but here are a few reasons. 1) Emotionally, I'm exhausted. I'd thought enduring the submission process for short stories had toughened me up enough to deal with the constant barrage of nos that I knew querying would involve. I was wrong.
