Laugh so you don't cry

Last night, at about 10 pm, I decided to send out a batch of queries. Carefully checked and rechecked the letters, the synopsis, the spelling of the name of each agent--every detail. Read everything through twice, and ran spellcheck. Cut and pasted into the emails per submission guidelines, and sent.

This morning I re-read them. In all six queries, the last sentence of the first paragraph of the query ends with a comma instead of a period.

My stomach sank--then I laughed so hard I could barely stand up, shook my head, shrugged it off, and went back to work. Anyone who's feeling down today, please feel free to have a good, honest laugh on me.

Thanks for the encouragement.

It's the little errors like that that drive me to distraction. I had a nonfiction piece published years ago, After all my edits, followed by the copyediting and galleying that had at least a dozen staff editor eyes on the piece, it published with a glaring error in the first sentence of the first footnote.