5 things I wish I’d known about querying before diving into the trenches

This post is for writers.

I know my blog is a quiet little place with maybe 20 readers, but all my posts automatically post to Twitter. And some agents follow me there. And agent-editor-author burnout discourse makes the rounds constantly, and writers who complain about querying frequently get subtweeted and shutdown, which is one of many reasons I don’t usually complain about querying in general and on Twitter in particular.

So on the off chance any agents wind up here, I’ll say it again:...