Welcome back! After a year-long hiatus, we're back with an exciting episode to kick off the new season of our show. This week we dive into the dreaded query trenches with guest Rachel Gladstone, author of The Weekend Wedding Assistant. What does it take to get an agent? We dive into the competitive world of pitching and securing an agent, and what it's like to part ways with your agent and find yourself in the query trenches all over again.

If you're a writer hoping to query, you're in the query trenches right now, or you're a reader wondering how this process actually works, this epsiode is for you!

Find Rachel at: https://rachelgladstone.net

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Books mentioned in this episode:

Lost and Found by Tarah DeWitt

https://bookshop.org/p/books/lost-and-found-a-spunes-novel-tarah-dewitt/900a96af4f92bc56?ean=9781250329462&bkshp-astro=t

Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

https://bookshop.org/p/books/nora-goes-off-script-annabel-monaghan/35b2ad49ed33bfa2?ean=9780593420058&bkshp-astro=t

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

https://bookshop.org/p/books/book-lovers-emily-henry/99f6c7d4ccb34055?ean=9780593334836&bkshp-astro=t

Ali Hazelwood

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-love-hypothesis-ali-hazelwood/0186b3d38ae2e7ab?ean=9780593336823&bkshp-astro=t

Abby Jimenez

https://bookshop.org/p/books/yours-truly-abby-jimenez/21bcf870af476b61?ean=9781538704394&bkshp-astro=t

On Writing by Stephen King

https://bookshop.org/p/books/on-writing-a-memoir-of-the-craft-stephen-king/35694917f8e2e375?ean=9781982159375&bkshp-astro=t