Seán Cooke

Irish Writer of MG / YA, chasing the dream.

[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

Day 2 of new novel, 1374 words written.

#amwriting #writingcommunity

[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

@marviecoelho My first novel went 50+ queries with no full requests.
My second novel went 50+ queries and was about to get shelved when the final query lead to a full request. It ultimately got turned down, but after 100+ across 2 novels, all the struggle felt worth it.

[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

@matilda_hansson Congratulations! You’ve already been in the trenches, just different ones!

[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

@Desirae_Writes Also you’d be amazed what a bit of editing can do. My wife’s book went from 120k to 95k after a general edit and then a line edit.
There’s always places to cut words. 🙂

[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

@Desirae_Writes 60k is the general upper limit for MG but there’s no hard and fast rule. Take time away from the manuscript (for it and for you!) and when you come back with fresh, lighter eyes, you’ll find places to cut words.
Or even get the help of someone else.
You got this 💪🏻

[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

I’m back into the query trenches with my MG Fantasy, Kim Reaper.

What are you querying?

#amquerying #writingcommunity

[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

@IndyBookDragon @QueryTracker “If Jason Todd dated Raven” - adding this to my future reading list on this alone 😂

[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

@Dewiwrites When the biggest question was “Laurel or Yenny?” and dresses lied about the colours they were. Simpler times.

[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

@JamesMGeary That looks so cool!!

[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

@andiesmithbooks Once it goes over $500 it’d be out of my consideration - not for any reason other than many more bills to pay and would find it hard to justify the spend.

In saying that, if it was someone who could show data-based proof in terms of securing representation afterwards, maybe.

[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

@Desirae_Writes If you warned them of the triggers in question then you can’t do much more, they read at their own risk!

[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

Never marry a primary school teacher.
So many late nights spent laminating little pictures of cartoon fruit.

[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

@ehsleeta The curse of the writer 😂

[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

@Ainwonderland 16/50 even… I can read but I can’t count 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

@Ainwonderland 14/50 - comfortably on pace!

[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

The decline in reaction times and general video game ability is not something the world prepared me for.

[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

Such a cool thing to do for fans, the jerseys vibrated to help experience the atmosphere.

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What a day! It was so great to be at St. James’ Park yesterday to cheer on @NUFC as they took to the pitch with the RNID logo on their shirts. ⚽

We loved the reaction of #NUFC deaf fans and mascots who experienced the atmosphere of the game like never before. (1/2)

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[Seán Cooke @seancookewriter]

@Dewiwrites Every time I dip back online your following has made a jump 😂 Killing it!