A writing pal of mine suggested I submit the novels to a newish publisher. I asked the agent if she wanted to approach them, but she said I could do […]
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Query Letter Elements
So what exactly should be in your query letter? In Angie Hodapp’s Query Letter Boot Camp, we talked about the three (or four) parts of a query letter: (Polite) Greeting: […]
Elements of a Solid Query Pitch
Here’s some more great information from the Women Writing the West Conference and the Query Letter Boot Camp. According to Angie Hodapp, there are six signal words you need to […]
Query Letter Tips
This is from our Query Letter Boot Camp by Angie Hodapp. Here are 8 Tips for writing a query letter: Shorter query letters tend to get better responses than long […]
Query Letters
So my query letter got chosen out of the slush pile for Jericho Writers Slushpile Evaluation session next week – w00t! I’ll be learning whether my query letter is effective […]
Write a Killer Query
One of the tough things authors have to do is to write a query letter for an agent or editor. Your query letter, according to Jane Friedman, should contain five […]
Blathering: A Nibble
So at the Tony Hillman Conference, they had a session where you could put your name into the hat for a reading of your first page in front of two […]
Short-Short: Write the Perfect Query Letter
In honor of my upcoming task, HERE’S a link to the Writer’s Digest guide to writing the perfect query letter.
Blathering: Edits
The manuscript is back from the copy editor already! I think that’s a good thing. She said it was a good story, and this is a PhD in English, so […]