Query letter PAU!
Apr. 1st, 2007 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
la_belle_laideI just want to commemorate this moment by saying I have finished my query letter and SASE (folded into thirds the short way!), put them both into a neatly addressed #10 envelope, and am sending the entire cafloofling thing out tomorrow morning to DAW books, betches. This is after FIVE HOURS of cutting, snipping, re-wording, hacking, hair-pulling, chest-beating, soy-drinking, knuckle-cracking, and general OMGWTF-ing. I went through six envelopes, not liking my handwriting on one, neglecting to put "Miss" before my gender-nonspecific first name, having the stamp on crooked, trying a 3-way fold the long way (duh!) and botching some envelope/letter origami that probably bordered on paper porn.
Now I eagerly await my first reply. If it's a rejection, I will gladly accept my first real rejection and tack it to my bedroom door, then I'll rework the query letter and try Silverleaf, because they sound cool, too. And so on down the line. I'll paper my door with rejections if I have to. If it is a request for the manuscript, I willcut my own throat with the manuscript begin the hair-pulling process all over again. I will not vanity-publish. Eventually, I'll pass the sentries at the gates of publication. "What is your quest? What is your favorite color? What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"
So, yeah.
ETA: EXCEPT I WROTE THE WRONG DATE AND HAD TO RE-PRINT AND MAKE A NEW ENVELOPE! It's funny. Really, it is.
Now I eagerly await my first reply. If it's a rejection, I will gladly accept my first real rejection and tack it to my bedroom door, then I'll rework the query letter and try Silverleaf, because they sound cool, too. And so on down the line. I'll paper my door with rejections if I have to. If it is a request for the manuscript, I will
So, yeah.
ETA: EXCEPT I WROTE THE WRONG DATE AND HAD TO RE-PRINT AND MAKE A NEW ENVELOPE! It's funny. Really, it is.
