I have been devoted to working on writing a query letter for the past month. The things I have learned are that 1) I am struggle to make content short and concise and 2) I have absolutely no clue how to hook people into wanting to read my work. One site says “make it punchy!” with fast hitting, dramatic phrases. Another says “define the hook of your book in 50 words!” They all say that’s the only way to get published.

Everything must be written in present tense for queries and summaries. That’s been a little difficult to convert to. It makes the writing feel more conversational. I’m adapting.

So, while I am slogging through the query, I am also working on updating this website while I edit Rust Prophecies 1. I’m posting all the cleaned up chapters here (though I’m sure there’s still work to be done. It’s like the 2nd full edit I’ve done on the book, and I’m still finding mistakes)

And so I don’t lose my momentum, I’m writing Year 5 of Archridge in between the other work. I’m going to delay updating on AO3 for a while, though, hopefully spurring my completion of everything else. First few chapters were hard – being synced with Alex while he went through that almost brought me to tears. I’ve written it before, I knew it was coming, but damn it was difficult.

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