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How To Write Query Letters ... or, really, how to revise query letters so they actually work

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

#86

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Dear Query Shark, I can see the future. Great, right? Not really. Five minutes. That's what I get. Five minutes of the future. ...
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Saturday, December 13, 2008

#85

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Dear Query Shark Frank, a recent graduate from the Young Gods Academy, has been assigned to manage a small, lower level planet on the outs...
21 comments:

#84-Revised twice

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Revision 2: Dear Query Shark, The unwritten rule of nature is that people fall into one of three categories: the living, the dead or the...
18 comments:

#83-Revision

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REVISION: Dear Query Shark: London's most notorious house of ill repute might not be the ideal sanctuary for a young woman of gentle...
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Friday, December 12, 2008

#82

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Dear Query Shark: Narissa is a lot of things—smart, outspoken, thick-skinned—but above all else she's dependable. She's spent half...
12 comments:
Monday, September 15, 2008

#80

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Dear Query Shark: Having found writers like X and Y on your list of authors, I hope you'll consider the mystery I Don't Do Windows...
16 comments:
Sunday, September 14, 2008

#79

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Dear Query Shark, Have you ever peeked into someone else's medicine cabinet? Or gotten a little thrill when you‚ ve found yourself ...
18 comments:

#78-Revised 3x

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THIRD REVISION Dear QS, Three thousand years ago, Loki, the Norse God of Mischief, created a game called The Social Experiment in whic...
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Saturday, September 13, 2008

#77 Revision

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Revision: Dear Query Shark, What happens when two best friends fall for the same girl? What if they are in the fifth grade and she myste...
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Friday, September 12, 2008

#76-Revisions

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REVISION: Dear Query Shark, I am writing you because you represented [Title] by [Author's Name]. The Last Catholic (90,000 words) ...
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Monday, September 1, 2008

#75

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Dear Query Shark: Angie Porter has never wanted kids. Instead, she has an apartment above the bookstore she owns with her friend Peter, t...
27 comments:
Sunday, August 31, 2008

#74

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Dear Query Shark, My completed 60,000 word manuscript, NODDING PINES, is a work of literary fiction that tells the story of a broken famil...
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#73-Revised 2x

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SECOND REVISION Dear Query Shark, Fourteen-year-old Samantha doesn’t want to think about the reasons she feels ‘different’. Instead, she...
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Saturday, August 30, 2008

#72

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Dear Query Shark: Mollie McWigglebutt is about to be turned into a Brussels sprout by a witch. Or so she believes when she hears a stran...
10 comments:

#71

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Dear Query Shark: In a sunless, frozen world, the landscape is difficult to travel, cities are built underground, and wars are fought with...
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