Reflecting on my time as a SmoochPit mentee and my first querying journey 🩷
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My first manuscript got me a writing mentorship. It still died in the query trenches.
When a big win ends on a low note
![Three graphics of amber jars with white labels sit on a brown wooden shelf. “Craft Your Poison” marks the front of the shelf in black cursive.
First jar: A yellow flower with green stems sits inside the jar. “Ingredient,” “Enemies to Lovers,” and “‘If you’re going to threaten to poison me, you should understand what you’re trying to poison me with’” mark the label.
Second jar: Dark indigo berries with lime green leaves fill the jar. “Ingredient,” “Involuntary visions of the future,” and “Blue, unseeing eyes bore into me. Their emptiness seizes my consciousness, twisting it awake. When I blink, the woman’s eyes close, and she disappears into the darkness” marks the label.
Third jar: A green leaf sits inside the jar. “Ingredient,” “Lessons in poison,” and “]I thought you couldn’t digest information from just reading.’ His chin dips, waiting to see if I uphold the lie I forgot about. I shrug. ‘It had drawings’” marks the label.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26erca6kbdaobevzjhsaa3mt/bafkreifpkptfhh7tw24kqidlihba2mb5rczgygycvvk2ate2nbx36qkzgm)
