An Experience in Querying | or, what happens when you query too early

A bit of a different kind of vlog today. I recorded a bit of my experience querying my fiction novel, which I'm using the project title Project Caramel Latte. At the end of February, I send out my first queries to literary agents, and began the process of shopping the book around. But I very quickly realised I didn't think the book was ready, and I learned the hard way to trust my gut.
I hope this helps anyone whose struggling with the querying process. Often on KZbin and other social media channels, we only really see the successes and big surprise happy moments. But this isn't everyone's reality. Maybe the next querying process will be one of those, but I wanted to share a less successful stint as well.
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[@KramersRemarks]

Stay strong Vivian! Your taking this all very well, and the best thing you can do for yourself and your project is to persist. You’ll get there. 😊

[@malikamaybe]

omg I appreciate you sharing this so much and being so open! And you weren’t being pedantic at all. I had a similar epiphany about my current manuscript before as well. I rewrote an entire YA fantasy because the premise was what I wanted, but I realized I’d written it as like a fantasy-fantasy initially when I wanted it to be more of a ‘thriller in a fantasy setting.’ Once you basically mentioned you wanted it to be a ‘mystery in an urban fantasy setting,’ I was like I get you 1000%. Congrats on being brave by putting your work out there and wishing you the absolute best on your rewrite!

[@VivianAsimos]

So glad you get it! and also glad other people have experienced it. Makes it feel a lot less harrowing

[@megreads9]

I would like to know how agents works ?

[@megreads9]

Do they tall you the reasons behind the rejections, I hope so because I have been rejected 14 times without any reasons which frustrated me so I turned to self publishing, I know it's hard as a self author but this the fast at least to me. I like to have an agent honestly but this journey is very hard, really hard.