This time I met a wizard. In every quest, there comes a time for the protagonist to meet with a wise wizard who can help on the path.
First, I’ve been maintaining about ten active queries at a time. I got one rejection from a more recent send. No harm, no foul. Keep up the pace and something will get through.
Anyway, the wizard.
I’d heard from the writing group I go to that there were some people who went pro. That made me feel like I was in the right place, an incubator that someone had come out of. So I asked and reached out to them.
Earlier this week I met Sue Burke. She is an author who is traditionally published and has an agent. I asked her a lot of questions about how she broke in and her ideas on who to do so know.
The main thing is patience. She said it took her a year of querying to find someone. I’ve been querying for six months. We commiserated about how it feels to be rejected by an agent. Then she created a large list of things I can be doing now to get my name out there, and pointed me to local communities I could go to network.
I have never talked with a traditionally published author before, so it was a great experience. I can see the woods ahead now. It helps to have a wizard.
Michael
Her site is https://sueburke.site/
Check out her books and let her know I sent you.
Michael Frutig 