Romance Author Romi Moondi joins Queries, Qualms, & Quirks this week to discuss zigzags and backtracks, amassing over a hundred rejections, signing with the wrong agent, self-publishing, the tyranny of best of lists, feeling responsible for representing your entire community, the one soundtrack she has to listen to for every book, and the friends who’ve been with her through it all.
Romi Moondi is a Canadian author whose 2022 diverse contemporary romance, 24 Hours in Paris, received a Publishers Weekly starred review and was the Publishers Weekly 2022 #1 Summer Romance Read. 24 Hours in Italy, the follow up to 24 Hours in Paris, also received a Publishers Weekly starred review and will be released on July 18th, 2023.
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Fantasy and Thriller Author Chelsea Mueller and The Queen of Google
Young Adult Author Rosiee Thor and So Many New Words
Middle Grade Author Sarah Allen and A Decade of Querying and Failing
Fantasy Author R.R. Virdi and the Seven Year Grind
Middle Grade Author Esme Symes-Smith and the Million-Revision Unicorn
Young Adult Author Laura Taylor Namey and the MSWL Tweet That Changed Everything
Middle Grade Author PJ Gardner and the Idea Machine
Young Adult Author Sarah Suk and Query Trenching
Women’s Fiction Author Sierra Godfrey and Long Stretches of Silence
Non-fiction author Catherine Baab-Muguira and Literary Wisdom from Kevin Bacon
Sci-Fi Author Nanci Schwartz and Why It’s Okay To Quit
Kidlit Author Lyn Miller-Lachmann and the Five Year Drought
Author and Poet Donna Gordon and the Desire to Put Words Together
Women’s Fiction Author Roselle Lim and Using Your Petty Batteries
SFF Author Erin Fulmer and Everything Happening All at Once
Mystery Author Sandra Block and Losing Control
Young Adult Author Jamie Beth Cohen and Checking Her Body for Jealousy
Gothic Fiction Author Paulette Kennedy and Letting the Words Come Out
Historical Fiction Author Addison Armstrong and When Your Passion Becomes Your Work
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