Q9: YA Sci-Fi: This has wonderful diversity and some fun astronomy connections that I find irresistible. Full Request. #tenqueries

Q8: YA Contemporary: This is more an anthology of short stories than a true narrative and doesn't quite fit with what I'm looking for. Pass. #tenqueries

Q7: Science Fiction: This one just feels like so many other SF/space opera queries I've seen before, it needs something more to really break out of the pack. Pass. #tenqueries

Q6: Science Fiction: This is the third time I'm seeing this query. Nothing has really changed, except the word count has gone up, and I don't have a lot of feedback here. It just is. Pass. #tenqueries

Q5: Science Fiction: This one is sort of appropriating Mayan culture and I don't think it's gonna fly in today's environment. Pass. #tenqueries

Q4: Fantasy: This Russian-inspired fantasy is intriguing but I am a little too overwhelmed by all the details here, Russian history + magic world-building I think is just too much for my brain to give enough attention to atm. This is totally #pandemic related. Pass. #tenqueries

Q3: YA Fantasy: This is a fairy tale retelling mashup that just doesn't grab me as much as the query I read before. Something about it reads more MG to me, and I just don't think it's a good fit. Pass. #tenqueries

Q2: YA Fantasy: This Phantom of the Opera inspired story has such lush prose in its opening pages I just want to keep reading. Full Request. #tenqueries

Q1: YA Paranormal: There's a lot I like about the premise, but I just haven't had any luck with college-aged protagonists in this category. Pass. #tenqueries

Q10: Women's Fiction: This is set in 1990s and I am just not the best fit for these kinds of stories. Pass. #tenqueries

Q9: YA Fantasy: This one doesn't even have a line about what the book is about in the query. Writers, don't do this. Pass. #tenqueries

Q8: Science Fiction: A one-line query letter isn't really doing the author any favors here. Pass. #tenqueries

Q7: YA magical realism: First of all, this isn't magical realism. But also, it's a little too young for the kind of YA I'm looking for. Pass. #tenqueries

Q6: YA Fantasy: I just want stories focused on the fae to be different from what's already out there, and I'm not really seeing that here. Pass. #tenqueries

Q5: Science Fiction: This is pitched as adult, but I don't know why because the story and the POV all read like YA. But word count wise, it's too high for YA, so that might explain it, but doesn't quite work. Pass. #tenqueries

Q4: Science Fiction: The central conflict of this story, doesn't seem like it belongs to the genre, there was nothing in the query that marked it as sci-fi until the mention of a galactic element. Which doesn't work for me. Pass. #tenqueries

Q3: Contemporary Romance: This office set romance isn't quite what I'm looking for, and this is dumb but I also really hate the MC's name. This is something I could get past if I loved the story, but I didn't fall for it. So I can settle into my dislike. Pass. #tenqueries

Q2: YA Fantasy: Here the story begins as if it were a story within a story but I think this distances the reader in a way that doesn't quite work for the kind of story this is meant to be. Pass. #tenqueries

Q1: YA Fantasy: I like the setting and the background mythology but these opening pages don't grab me the way I would like in order to keep reading. Regretfully it's a Pass. #tenqueries

Q10: Fantasy: Again this query doesn't give me enough to go on. I don't really have a sense of what is motivating the characters and what the real conflicts are. Pass. #tenqueries