For the first time in at least a decade, I’ve reached out to a New York Times bestselling author to hopefully endorse a book I wrote.

It’s a new form of the querying process. You don’t like doing it, but you must. And it’s not that you dislike asking a particular author for this favor. You look up to these writers. They inspired you.

The prospect of rejection weighs on you. But as Hyman Roth of Godfather II fame once said, “This is the business we have chosen!”

So, it’s out there. Others will join it at some point, but you must start somewhere.

Here’s to hope.