Wait. I think you have me confused…

Wait. I think you have me confused…

So, here I sit. Writing and rewriting this darn query. Lol–after all the angsty thoughts of the last few days, I really got serious and worked on it for TWO hours this morning. And I think I may have one that is pretty good. I will look at it again tonight and see if I am still happy with it. One of these days, I will be able to announce that I am sending it somewhere…if I ever get the courage. For some reason, I can promote every one in the world but myself. My work, I am so close

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No Garden Party

So, after posting the last post about wanting to get an agent and go for the gold, I started working on my query letter. Ugh. I am focusing on Loran Rudder and the Secret Key because it is my first YA novel in a while, and it is what I consider to be sort of different from what is out there…sort of. At least the common thread between all of us writing YA is different. It is NOT paranormal, nor dystopian. I have been researching the market, and I could be wrong. There seem to be some books like it

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Researching Books Like Mine

Welcome to another episode of my podcast. [powerpress]https://www.kimsmithauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Researching-Books-Like-Mine.m4a[/powerpress]

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