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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@AstonGryffynn @CoffeeandIrony Congratulations! I hope it does big business for you.

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@CoffeeandIrony Then there are literary agencies. Most are nearly entirely staffed by women, and while examining books they’ve shepherded to publication, they’re by women, often exclusively. I suppose they’re responding to the interests of editors at publishing houses that are mostly female.

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@KT_Carlisle I suspect AI detection software uses… AI… to reach its conclusion, as designed…

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@RomanceMona https://t.co/D4SAr4zzUT

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@theGrimWriter Both

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@morgan_northy If she hasn’t replied by now it’s probably a no. You don’t know the status of your submission until she tells you, even if it’s a maybe. Don’t freak out. Just keep moving forward. And find another agent to query.

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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?