excite revision

As my beta readers finish up with Excite (my 2017 NaNo Novel) I am overwhelmed with their thoughtful and positive feedback. I hadn't looked at this one all that much after banging it out in November. Aside from tidying up some grammar and POV issues and adding one additional chapter I kind of decided on a whim to send it out when I did a reading exchange.

I am actually finding it is much cleaner than I thought. I haven't touched anything yet as I still wait for one person to finish the last few chapters but I have some ideas to tweak some minor things then I may send it out once more to a couple readers for specific things. One is a police officer that I’m hoping will read for procedure accuracy- which will be great to get some ‘real knowledge’ in there.

The other thing that the positivity is making me consider is going a traditional route with this one. I had slated it to self pub and cross my fingers but now I am looking at putting together a query letter for it! It is hard to map in a genre so that will be a bit difficult but I think it will be worth it. Even if I end up getting a pile of rejections it will be a new experience so that’s always good, right?

Anyone have good tips on query letters? Especially of genre-fluid novels? Leave them in the comments!