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First Query sent out, and what I’m going to do with rejections

Dear Patrons of every level and tier, Blog followers and innocent bystanders,

I promised I was going to start querying in January, and here I am: yesterday I’ve officially sent my first query to a prospect agent, which included:

– the first twenty pages of the novel;
– a query letter;
– a one-sentence pitch.

Sending queries means I’ll soon start receiving rejections. Some will be polite. Some will be less polite. The market is tough, and I know of people who have been querying for years, so I’ve been trying to devise something that will turn the negative feedback into something positive.

I think I found it.

Each time I get a rejection, Patrons in the middle and upper tier will get a free eBook in epub format to download and add to their reader of choice. It will either be original stuff, stuff in the public domain, stuff in the public domain with original annotations or original translations of stuff in the public domain.
People in the lower tier will get the first chapter to read over there on Patreon.

So this you get to cheer for me and participate to my failures through something positive.

How does that sound?

I’ll upload a test in the next few days, to see if the way I’m encoding the eBooks is working.

Not a Patron yet? Consider becoming one!

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