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“Did the rabbit die?”
Greetings from the querying trench. Pull up a box, it’s time to see how things are going. In short. They aren’t. Piffle. So, it’s time to disassemble this beastie and see what’s amissin’. The Totals as of November 24, 2022, leaving out the poetry, also not consigning the one possible silent rejection entirely to the…
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Commercial enough?
I’ve been struggling a bit recently. The concerns involve my novel and a line I heard in a video by Alexa Donne. The line was in Alexa’s video on the querying process she uses. As she is talking about what to do if your ‘test queries’ don’t return any positive responses, she mentions the solutions of…
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Wabbit hunting
Someone, forgive me, I did not remember where I saw the question, asked me what I was talking about when I said ‘test queries’. Fair question. I found the idea in a video by Alexa Donne. She has a YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexaDonne) and has a huge collection of videos that range from the fun to…
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A brief rant about editing
I could sum this up with — “Do IT.” Then do it again. And again. And again. Needless to say, I woke up this morning and thought, hey I’ll look over those first pages I sent out. <head desk> I hate them. Just can’t believe I sent these out. Where was my brain? This is…
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Tools in the Trench
Alrighty then, here we go.Let’s talk tools. Like any self respecting hunter, you need the right tools for the job. You need to know the preferences of your query quary. And you need to know the hunting ‘etiquette’. (Yes, that really is a thing.) Querying generates a ton of information. Last round, my efforts to…