Chase Gamwell

Category: Writing

  • Recovering From a Crippling Blow

    Blog posts have been sparse because I lost my groove in March and April. After three years of working on Infinity’s Heir, I decided to submit it to an agent for review (query letter, synopsis, and first three chapters). Overall, the agent thought the writing was “fine”, but ultimately wound…

  • Ending One Journey, Beginning Another

    January was a mixed bag. I sent out a final round of queries for Aiko’s Dive at the beginning of the year. None of the (few) responses were positive. Though there are still a handful of agents on my query list, I’ve decided to end Aiko’s journey. It’s a painful…

  • The Year of “Unfortunately” and the Path Forward

    I’ve spent a lot of time talking about querying on my blog, but 2018 is the first year that I really got into the nitty-gritty of the process. Aiko’s Dive is the first novel that felt ready to go out into the world, so I spent extra time refining the…

  • New Look!!!

    In my first post of 2019, I promised a significant rework of the site, and it’s finally done! The goal of the rework was to make my blog as reader-friendly as possible. Here are the highlights: New Theme – The blog’s previous theme was a little too cluttered for my…

  • 2019 Resolutions

    Honesty time… I’ve been terrible at this blog thing. At first, it felt really cool to post a bunch of updates about what I was working on, but as I got busier, something had to be put by the wayside. And Storm at Sea was the unfortunate casualty. But with…

  • Frantic Fall

    Hi again, everyone! As usual, it’s been months since my last update, and TONS has happened. Mostly, life has been getting in the way of writing endeavors. Work has been sending me out to customer locations with increasing regularity and projects around the house have been demanding more attention than…

  • June-pocalypse

    June was a total gut-punch. I got a lot of positive feedback from the #WriteMentor mentors, but I was ultimately passed over. For the most part, the feedback suggested that I was nearly where I needed to be to get published, but it still stung to watch others go on to…

  • Things Are Changing (for the better)!

    It used to be that I’d send manuscripts out to agents as soon as I thought they were ready. I did it with Infinity’s Heir back at the end of 2016, and again with Aiko’s Dive with a few “test queries” nearer to the beginning of 2018. In both cases,…

  • I got picked for #QueryKombat 2018!!!

    I just found out that Aiko’s Dive got picked for #QueryKombat. The first round is next Friday, and I can’t wait to see how my query stacks up! Stay tuned for more info!

  • “Oh. It’s just a hobby, then.”

    Rejection is something that writers are intimately familiar with. Whether from contests, the slush pile, or elsewhere, we’ve come to accept it as a right of passage; the price of a ticket to walk the path to publishing. Even so, rejection is a bitter pill to swallow over and over…