Colleen Bays is ✨️Querying✨️

Author, Firewife, Mom, former YS librarian & professor 📝 Querying 3 children's books: KITTY UNDERCOVER, UNICORN KISSES, & COOKIE CRUMBS!

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📚Mo Willems’ Pigeon x No, Fuzzball! x Secret Agent Splat
🚸Picture book, ages 4-8
👋Interactive! Breaks 4th wall
⌛️#amquerying
#kidlit #questpit entry 3 of 4 #q #pb

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@PenOfBaylis I'll follow you! Follow me back at completelybookedwithcolleenbays

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@Mary_ork If it ends up with sticky smudges and ripped pages, I'll know it found a loving home! ❤️

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@sirbenjaminjr I STARTED QUERYING MY NEWEST BOOK!! I've already sent out my first round because I started yesterday! Now, I have 2 webinars I want to watch this week.

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@LeeAnnCooperrr Ooohhh can't wait to see some social media graphics for this one!

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@vickyweberbooks I'll be there!

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One of my picture books is heading back to the drawing board... I think it needs a dismantling and reassembly. But another one is getting ready to hit the query trenches! May the odds be ever in my favor! #amquerying #writingcommunity #authormom

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@vickyweberbooks You're a gem! Thank you for continuously pulling back the curtains to get authors, agents, and editors on the same page! I think it's less frustrating for all parties if we understand what each other need. ❤️

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@felicia_formats I'm not interested, but thank you!

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When your "writing chocolate" understood the assignment:
#authormom #writingcommunity #dovechocolate

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@PenOfBaylis 😆 love it!

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@NovelistRJones Perfect!!

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@AuthorGFAllen Writing/publishing a children's picture book.

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@PenOfBaylis 😮

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@PenOfBaylis @JulesDashII Yes!

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@PenOfBaylis I got ready to say, "I'm not middle-aged & I'm still trying to figure out out!" But then I realized... maybe I AM middle-aged....😭😆

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@vickyweberbooks Clean romance for preteens. You have no idea how many middle schoolers asked for this when I was a children's librarian & we don't have them to give them! We had some great ones that I ate up when I was in middle and high school. Kids don't change & still have the same needs.

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@vickyweberbooks Yay! Just registered. I love learning from you!

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@rrreadsbooks Hope your slushies are delicious! 😉

And I'll be watching for your reopening, especially if you open to picture books! Happy reading!

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@LeeAnnCooperrr Did you find your agent on querytracker? Was it a pitch event like? Or other methods?

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@LeeAnnCooperrr Yay! What did you do differently between your two times in the query trenches? Edits? New query letter?