Plus it had an agent at C&W say it was “one of the stronger submissions [she] has received recently” and one agent at Talcott Notch say that she “has been reviewing over 1600 queries this last month and yours was one of the strongest set of pages she read.”

I know reading other query package that worked helped me a lot to craft mine, so I thought it was about time I finally share it! PLUS I tell you the one thing that drastically contributed to the success I had in the query trenches (because I want you to succeed too!)

✨I’d love to help you make your query package stronger! Check out my services for querying authors here! ✨

Mentioned in this episode:

• Check out the first page of my novel & the synopsis here: Leftie Aube’s Writing Substack
• The Pomodoro Technique
• Coffee Shop Background Noise
• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
• Decomposed Anthology
• My weird detachment trick
• Print Run Podcast
• The Shit No One Tells You About Writing Podcast
• Save The Cats Write A Novel by Jessica Brody
• The Story Grid by Shawn Coyne
• Manuscript Academy
• The episode on Writer Friends

Recorded on October 20th, 2026

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