R.E. Moore

Award Winning Author Audacious Lunatic Emotionally Stable yet vulnerable and affectionate who loves History MLB Weird Art Literature and a good laugh

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@MTHart12 https://t.co/WQteA9IG0m

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@MitchellDHadley Same here. They will consider carrying a book if I pay them dough, give em a free copy. And, if it sells well, they might let me do a reading. Woo-hoo!!!
I didn’t follow up.

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@lhallwriter Both

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@qmaddenwrites Too commercial? As in too many units might be sold? This doesn’t sound right to me, as if she has another reason for the rejection, and isn’t honest enough to do so.

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Finalist for the Eyelands Book Award for historical fiction.

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@DebsHof I went down that path in 2010, needed a pacemaker to keep me alive, four more pacemaker operations since 2018, and I’m still here. Best wishes on a successful operation, and going forward, your thriving in life.

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@Bethyo That’s a serious charge. Better to take the path you’ve chosen than act on assumptions that may or may not be true.

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@qmconnwrites Rejection is rejection, even if they say something nice. It’s still a crap sandwich with sugar on top.

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@LVTeacherman @REstepLit You’re welcome. Keep in mind that larger word counts equal higher page counts, and those equal higher printing costs. Publishers are trying to avoid books that aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

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@LVTeacherman @REstepLit Writer’s Digest addresses word count issues per genre. However, it’s a moving target that’s constantly evolving. One writer thing I’ve learned is that targeting your work to 80-90K should put you in the ballpark without scaring off potential agents from considering your work.

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@amykdebellis Ah! AI, proven or not. Another reason for the industry to fail to take a chance on an unknown quantity. Courage this is not.

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@GennaMattioli Without knowing your work I’d advise ending the first of the trilogy on a thrilling high note that leaves things unsettled, and set up for the next two books. Since you already have 206K into it, you might be able to end book one sooner than you think, like I have a clue. LOL.

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@GennaMattioli Good luck with the revisions. It sounds like the agent likes things about your book but it’s longer than one she can sell. Make sure you keep the story’s heart in place. Genre?

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@GennaMattioli That’s challenging. It’s amazing how many things are hard to cut that seem organically important to the pace and overall structure.
I hired an editor to reduce a similarly long novel to 105K. The requesters failed to reject my efforts, leaving me in permanent limbo.

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@SRaeEvans Maybe you don’t scream “easy sale”?
Best wishes for your success.

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@SRaeEvans Who knows? Especially not me. I’ve been sending queries for years. Other than a couple of requests for more pages, and even full requests, I’m still in the wilderness waiting and watching. Maybe they’re not gripped by your story or writing? Maybe you don’t have a platform?

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@lhallwriter Same here. There are also a lot of imposters claiming to be successful authors who want to know about my writing journey.

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@DelandJessica If there anything the fakers won’t do? Apparently not.

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@Bethyo Angels We Have Heard on High, and, Oh Holy Night. Honorable mention to Jingle Bell Rock.