Hello! New Fantasy, Sci-fi, YA author.

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Hello all, nice to meet you!

I've been writing for a while and have been encouraged to start submitting my work by those around me, so I thought it would be a good idea to join a community like this one for a bit of companionship in this process...
I'm naturally very shy and the idea of going to a real life writing club is terrifying to me, and this is pretty scary too, but easier to hide!

At the moment I'm trying to ship around an adventure novel, but so far I've only dared send my work out to two agents - the first I heard nothing from and the second responded with something more encouraging but still didn't want to take it. Since then I haven't sent out any more but I am working on improving the overall story before I begin again. I'd like reach a point were I can resume submissions by the end of the year.

Anyway, thank you for reading and hopefully I will be able to talk with you soon!
 

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Hi Sleepy, I regret not joining here before I sent off some submissions so I'm sure you'll find the forum really helpful for getting your book query ready.

I write YA fantasy too but no sci fi, though I love to read it. Good luck!
 

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Hi Sleepy, I regret not joining here before I sent off some submissions so I'm sure you'll find the forum really helpful for getting your book query ready.

I write YA fantasy too but no sci fi, though I love to read it. Good luck!

Hey Pingle, thanks for the welcome :) I will be scouring the forum for useful stuff, don't worry!
 

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I just joined as well. Nice to already meet a fellow YA author! Hope the revamping of your novel goes well.
 

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Welcome! Any blog/website we can read some of your previous/new work? :) Always enjoy reading AWers writing :)
Hello all, nice to meet you!

I've been writing for a while and have been encouraged to start submitting my work by those around me, so I thought it would be a good idea to join a community like this one for a bit of companionship in this process...
I'm naturally very shy and the idea of going to a real life writing club is terrifying to me, and this is pretty scary too, but easier to hide!

At the moment I'm trying to ship around an adventure novel, but so far I've only dared send my work out to two agents - the first I heard nothing from and the second responded with something more encouraging but still didn't want to take it. Since then I haven't sent out any more but I am working on improving the overall story before I begin again. I'd like reach a point were I can resume submissions by the end of the year.

Anyway, thank you for reading and hopefully I will be able to talk with you soon!
 

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Welcome Sleepy. Best of luck going forward.
 

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Thanks for the welcome, everyone :)

@Austin I don't have a website yet... but it's on my to do list. I will definitely be sharing here at some point though, thanks!