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Last updated on Oct 15, 2025
Additional Reviews: Query Critique December 2025
Martin Cavannagh
Head of Content at Reedsy, Martin has spent over eight years helping writers turn their ambitions into reality. As a voice in the indie publishing space, he has written for a number of outlets and spoken at conferences, including the 2024 Writers Summit at the London Book Fair.
View profile →In our query critique session of Reedsy Live in December 2025, we ran out of time before all our prepared queries could be featured. As bonus content, here are the remaining marked-up submissions.
Children's Chapter Book
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Picture Book
Romantic Fiction (Novella)
Contemporary Fiction
Fantasy
Fantasy (YA)
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
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Literary Fiction (YA?)
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Memoir (Music)
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Mystery
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For more query critiques, check out our previous session with agent Jon Darga.
