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Today I sent out my very first query letter for my Glosa project.

I sent it to Metonymy press, the queer press in Montreal. They mostly do fiction and CNF, but have a couple of books of poetry in their catalogue.

So. I sent 10 poems out to them with an intro letter and a "table of contents" (probably more relevant to novels or CNF, but it let me get an idea for where I wanted different pieces to go, so).

Anyway. I have had wine and ice cream to celebrate starting this next stage of The Process (or the Journey, if you wanna). And now I'm attending a poetry thing on zoom (with my camera off).

Probably going to have to leave early, tbh, but may be able to duck back in. We'll see.

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Location: Home
Current Music: Random Jazz (Played over zoom during Intermission at Riverbed Reading Series)

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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, as

sexy_romulan says.