by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
After several weeks of staring out into space, not doing anything, I’m finally, finally beginning the process of querying User Error. I’m giving myself essentially two months to prepare before I start sending out my query letters.
Now, obviously, what is going to happen is the literary agents I query — if are interested in me — are going to do due diligence on me and discover this blog, then God only knows what will happen then.
I fear a lot of them will run screaming into the night at how kooky and weird I am.
But, who knows. I am prone to overthinking such things.
One thing I’m afraid of is I will really struggle to continue work on my next novel because I’ll be so focused on querying. But who knows.
Another thing I have to watch out for is leaning too much on AI to do querying stuff. It really helps in some respects — like finding comps — but in other ways I really need to be careful not to replace my own writing with AI slop.
Literary agents are going to notice that kind of thing.
