Query Shark

Query Shark critiques fiction queries. You have to send a query to the shark for it to be considered. There is a checklist for how to do th...

Dear Query Shark, I'm risking a bite on the ass here, I'm sure, but I had to write a quick note of thanks. After several months ...

The FAQ covers how QueryShark works, not general query questions (if you ask a question other than about QS it won't get posted. Thing...

I recently sent three queries for my MG novel. I have heard from two agents: one rejection and one request for a full based on the query and...

  Once upon a time, I wrote what I thought was a decent query letter.  Then I found Query Shark and realized I had made approximately all th...

  I just wanted to say thank you for Query Shark.  It took me six years, two novels, and nineteen query letter drafts, but not only was I fi...

Reading your blog has not only made queries considerably less intimidating for me (although not completely), it has provided me with some mu...

  Your Royal Sharkness,                         I never got up the guts to send one of my queries into your shark-infested waters, but I d...

  I’ve received an offer of publication from a small publisher-- and an offer of representation from one of my short-listed NY agents. I ...

  I doubted your methods, and I now owe you an apology. I only gave your archives five days to gestate revision ideas, and now, on the seven...

Just a quick note to say thank you for all your Query Shark posts. Reading through/dissecting every entry helped me write a query letter goo...

I don't even know where to begin to thank you for all your hard work that you've put into the Query Shark website. I've read yo...

I can hardly believe I'm writing this, but yesterday, I signed with a dream agent. I have no doubt that my querying success is, in a h...

I can hardly believe I'm writing this, but yesterday, I signed with a dream agent. I have no doubt that my querying success is, in a ...

OMG! Where once I was blind, now I see. I have read dozens of your shark bites and thought I had it down. I am shaking my head at the crap I...