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Hello! I am a paid subscriber and I can't find the downloadable pdfs of the critiques in the Tuesday newsletter or in the substack app. Can you please help me in locating them?

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Hi Casey!

Thanks so much for being a paid subscriber -- we appreciate your support!

The PDFs are included bi-weekly, so the last one that went out was on Tuesday December 31st and the next one will be included on Tuesday January 14th. These are aligned with when the Books With Hooks podcast episodes air every other Thursday.

Hope that makes sense! 💖

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Thanks so much for your feedback on my query letter in this episode! Very grateful. I'm trying to find the place where you share detailed feedback on the opening pages ~ am I missing this somewhere?

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Hi Tara!

You will actually be receiving the feedback in a personal email next Tuesday :)

Our Books With Hooks segment is released bi-weekly. We include them for our paid subscribers in our newsletter every other Tuesday. Keep an eye out for an email from our project manager, Taneet in your email inbox! 💖

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Great, thank you for clarifying!

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Our pleasure!! 💖💖

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I subscribed to read your pages/critique and it looks like they haven't linked critiques for about half a year now?! lol https://theshitaboutwriting.substack.com/s/query-critiques/archive?sort=new

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Hi RJ!

Thanks for being a paid subscriber! We appreciate the support.

Beginning in September, our hosts announced that moving forward they would be doing the Books With Hooks segment on the podcast bi-weekly rather than weekly.

The podcast episode is released on Thursdays and the following Tuesday is when our paid newsletter goes out.

You should be able to see the Books With Hooks section of the newsletter either in email or in the Substack app. Both provide downloadable PDF files of the query critiques.

I hope this helps clarify things! If you have any other questions or concerns, please let me know.

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Hey guys, I am a paid subscriber and I still cannot locate the downloadable PDFs for the Books with Hooks segment. I promise I've tried! I've checked the email newsletter and the app. Help :)

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Hi Lauren, thanks so much for being a paid subscriber! So sorry to hear you're not finding the query critiques. The BWH portion of the newsletter goes out every other Tuesday (alternating with the author interviews on the podcast). I'm happy to forward you the newsletters directly if you can send me an email at theshitaboutwriting.newsletter@gmail.com 💖

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Same here!

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Hi Liz,

Thanks so much for your support, we really appreciate it! 💖 The Books With Hooks critiques are not posted anywhere except in our Tuesday newsletter for paid subscribers. As of September 2024, our hosts made the decision to do BWH every second week because of their workload. The podcast episodes are released every Thursday (one week is an author interview and the next week is BWH), so you will see downloadable PDF files in the Tuesday newsletter following the Thursday episode, but every second week. The last BWH queries went out on December 31st. The next ones will go out tomorrow. Hope this helps and makes sense!

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Yes, this makes sense! Found them, thanks!!

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I still can't find the Books with Hooks critiques. Judging by the other comments nobody else can either. With the greatest respect - maybe reconsider it's your newsletter that's the problem and not the readers? We don't know which newsletter is Tuesday. Your heading says "books with hooks" is in this one, but it's not. It's quite frustrating. And it's not just one subscriber having this problem. Sorry to be so grumpy, but I only have 10 minutes spare today to go looking and I've used up all that time already, wading through your content! (Still haven't found it.)

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Thank for your feedback, Cat. A few people who've commented seem to be struggling but most of our supporters who open their newsletters each week know where to find the critiques.

But we'll still brainstorm how we might be able to make it easier for you. Watch this space!

For now, head to the these edition dates in the Substack app and you'll find the critiques: 14 January, 31 December, 17 December, 3 December , 19 November, 5 November, 22 Oct, 8 Oct, etc. So every second Tuesday's edition. Hope that helps!

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Listen to the episode! We're not saying you should be writing screenplays.

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