The Dating Game: Literary Agent Edition

Erica Treadway
3 min readNov 23, 2020

I have discovered that sending query letters to agents is like dating. You read their bio, and you find the one thing that you can connect your story to their interest. You have to be the matchmaker. And then…. You get ghosted.

I have never been on a dating app. Not that I am opposed to it, I just have never needed it. I have met dates through other people or from work. And to be honest, I went…

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