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What I *Really* Think About Your Book

What I *Really* Think About Your Book

A running list of thoughts as I read queries recently

Kate McKean
May 23, 2019
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Why is everything about Nixon?

Why is everything post-apocalyptic again?

Why is everything satire?

Oh, all those things are related?

Please leave Alice in Wonderland, Don Quixote, and Dante’s Inferno alone.

I absolutely cannot read your 200k word book.

Yes, I have heard of synesthesia.

That picture book idea was pretty good, but it’s a crowded market and I don…

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