Live from the trenches, it’s querying updates

I don’t normally write querying updates, both because I’m just the right (or wrong) kind of superstitious and because I don’t want to sound like a whiny bench.

If I complain about querying, maybe the universe will be all, “I’ll GIVE YOU something to complain about.” If I celebrate a request, maybe the universe will be all, “Your head’s getting too big, time to take you down a peg.” I don’t want to complain to friends who are agented because I don’t want to bring them down, and I don’t want to...