Lessons from the query trenches: My 10-year journey to finding a literary agent

Aly Brown
Aly Brown
Nov 4 · 6 min read
Photo courtesy of Steve Johnson, via Pixabay

In 2005, my mom decided to buy the two of us tickets for a lecture on publishing children’s books.

We hopped on BART and ventured into San Francisco. She’d always loved to write, but I knew the purchase was for me. I was 19 at the time, pregnant and had decided that, given the huge life-course change, I was going to follow my…

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