Once it was time to do the nitty gritty of writing a query letter and choosing which agents to query, I used tools like Query Tracker, Pub(lishing) Crawl, and Absolute Write Water Cooler. It was a huge confidence boost to see all the likes on my pitch (especially because I had failed miserably in my previous querying attempt on a past manuscript). I actually wasn’t going to participate at first, but to see so many diverse writers celebrating each other and connecting with agents and other authors, I knew I couldn’t pass up the chance to pitch Wicked Fox. So, when I heard about a diverse twitter pitch event called #DVPit, I was very intrigued. I became a part of the online writing community via Twitter, which really opened me up to gain amazing insights and advice from writers who had been there before. In terms of publishing, how did you navigate the process of finding an agent and, with his or her representation, connecting your manuscript to a publisher? They discuss their paths to publication and emphasize the importance of reading to their writing apprenticeship. Today we welcome debut YA authors Kat Cho, author of Wicked Fox (Penguin Teen, 2019) and Olivia Hinebaugh, author of The Birds, The Bees, and You and Me (SwoonReads, 2019).
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