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amazon_syren) wrote2023-08-22 08:47 am
amazon_syren) wrote2023-08-22 08:47 am
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Femme Glosa Project - It's Query Time!
So I've started my (presumably first of many) query letter for my Glosa manuscript.
It's only 52 poems.
But that's still 11,200 or so words, so actually dandy for a poetry manuscript.
I know which poems my opening and closing pieces will be, and everything else is split into seven sections (though I may not actually mark them as such).
The publisher I'm querying is not a Poetry press. It's a Queer press that has put out a few (like maybe four) poetry books, but mostly sticks to fiction and CNF. I figure, given the nature of the project, it fits with their mandate enough that they might give it a go.
I've re-titled a bunch of the poems - mostly the ones that had obvious astrological or tarot-related titles - though given that this press's first publication was literally a tarot-interpretation book, that may not be helpful in this instance. Still, I feel better about it, so I'm going with it.
Excelsior, assexy_romulan says.
It's only 52 poems.
But that's still 11,200 or so words, so actually dandy for a poetry manuscript.
I know which poems my opening and closing pieces will be, and everything else is split into seven sections (though I may not actually mark them as such).
The publisher I'm querying is not a Poetry press. It's a Queer press that has put out a few (like maybe four) poetry books, but mostly sticks to fiction and CNF. I figure, given the nature of the project, it fits with their mandate enough that they might give it a go.
I've re-titled a bunch of the poems - mostly the ones that had obvious astrological or tarot-related titles - though given that this press's first publication was literally a tarot-interpretation book, that may not be helpful in this instance. Still, I feel better about it, so I'm going with it.
Excelsior, as
sexy_romulan says.