Reviews

What querying authors tell us.

Member comments about research, preparation, and staying organised through a long process.

Reviews describe individual experiences of using our research tools. They are not predictions of outcomes.

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I stopped sending the same query to everyone. Filtering by genre and submission method saved me weeks.

Marta L.

Literary fiction, querying since 2025

The synopsis template was the first one that explained why the ending has to be in there.

Dan O.

Crime, first novel

Keeping every reply and follow-up date in one place is the part I didn't know I needed.

Priya R.

Middle grade

The reminders to check the agency's own page caught two closed submission windows for me.

Chris B.

Narrative nonfiction

Clear, unhyped, and it never promised me a book deal. That's why I trusted it.

Ellen K.

Romance

The query clinic feedback was blunt in the most useful way.

Tomas V.

Fantasy

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