Dear Kim, Remember that letter I sent you way back in October? (You remember October-- back when all things seemed possible.) The letter, COMP TITLES and THE QUERYING WRITER , shared details from our Novel Nuts & Bolts class with Empire Literary Agent Carrie Howland. (I may have referred to her as "agent-extraordinaire" in another post .) Though today's post will be my third about Carrie, it is titled "Part II" because my querying journey seems sequel worthy. I started looking for an agent soon after you and I met at the NYC SCBWI conference in 2012 . I had nice feedback from an agent at a conference and sent him my work. His response was kind (which I've found most responses from agents to be.) But my writing wasn’t ready. The novel he saw was the first I’d ever finished. I wasn't ready. I swallowed that little voice that said, SEND! SEND! SEND! for two more years until I entered #PitchWars -- Brenda Drake’s crash cou...