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The calendar flipped. The champagne glasses clinked. People started posting their big announcements and fresh starts and this is my year energy. And my inbox? Still quiet. No offers.No rejections.No news at all. Just silence—the kind that doesn’t slam a door but also doesn’t open one. I wish I could say I greeted the new year with calm certainty. That I felt grounded. Confident. At peace with the process. But the truth is, the quiet messes with you. It makes you question

I want to talk about something a lot of writers gloss over: what happens after a full request doesn’t pan out. For months, I poured my heart into my manuscript, hit “send,” and watched one of my dream agents request the full. That moment felt electric — like maybe, finally, all the late nights and self-doubt were leading somewhere. But then came silence. Then the pass. And if I’m being honest? It stung. I didn’t want to open my laptop, didn’t want to write, didn’t even want

I’ve watched some of my traditionally published friends grind hard not on writing their next book but on marketing the one that just...