Query Letters
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How to Write a Query Letter (at a Glance)
A query letter is a letter geared toward literary agents or editors asking if they would like to see your manuscript. Query letters are your introduction and a TEASE of your book. Query letters need to be perfect, free of spelling and grammatical errors. They need to be concise and professional! Avoid gimmicks at all costs!
If you're having difficulty writing one for your manuscript, a freelance editor or critique group can help. Below are additional resources to help get you on your way. Good luck!
How to Write a Query Letter - a Basic Breakdown
How to Write a Query Letter in 7 Simple Steps
My 6 Top Tips for Authors Querying Agents
In Closing: Resources We Love (great links to querying, synopsis-writing, more
How to Write a Query Letter: Nonfiction and Memoir
20 Querying Tips from Roaring 20s Debuts
How's the Voice in Your Query Pitch?
Top Ten Query Tips
The Key to a Good Query Letter: Summarizing Through Specificity
7 Common Writer Mistakes (agent Clelia Gore)
YA Literary Agents Talk About the Most Common Submission Errors
10 Things Not to Say in your Query - Advice from a Children's Publisher
Query Quiz: What Gets an Immediate Deletion v. Email Rejection
Querying a Complicated Book: Dissecting the Elephant
The Biggest Mistake Writers Make in Their Query Letters
Best of Ask the Agent: Kindly or Creepy? (on Personalization)
Don't Begin Query Letters with Empty Rhetorical Questions
Bio Section
How to Pitch Your Story
Pitch is Concept
The Art of Pitching: A Story in a Sentence
Submission Errors to Avoid
YA Literary Agents Talk About the Most Common Submission Errors
10 Things Not to Say in your Query - Advice from a Children's Publisher
Query Quiz: What Gets an Immediate Deletion v. Email Rejection
Querying a Complicated Book: Dissecting the Elephant
The Biggest Mistake Writers Make in Their Query Letters
Best of Ask the Agent: Kindly or Creepy? (on Personalization)
Don't Begin Query Letters with Empty Rhetorical Questions
Comps
Why Comp?
6 Ways to Make Comp Titles Work for Your by Jennifer Johnson-Blalock
Comparable Titles 101
Finding Comp Titles
Why Comp?
6 Ways to Make Comp Titles Work for Your by Jennifer Johnson-Blalock
Comparable Titles 101
Finding Comp Titles
Bio Section
Query Letters That Worked
Query Letters that Worked, Query Letters That Didn't, and the Stories these Letters Tell
The Secret to Writing a Successful Query Letter
The Secret to Writing a Successful Query Letter
Good Websites
Sub It Club
Sub It Club
How to Pitch Your Story
Pitch is Concept
The Art of Pitching: A Story in a Sentence