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

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

#101-revised

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REVISION: Dear Query Shark: Toni Matthew’s life is almost perfect. She’s a top-producing real estate agent, is engaged to a man who lov...
9 comments:

#100-revised and improved!

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Dear Query Shark: For Christmas, when he was nine, Christopher asked Santa for a puppy. His parents asked for a daughter. You really o...
20 comments:
Sunday, January 25, 2009

#98-revised

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REVISION: Dear Query Shark, Sixteen-year-old loner Scott Foster spends his free time programming and writing science fiction stories. Af...
19 comments:

#97-revision

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Revision: Dear Query Shark: Good Mother Lizard, a literary coming-of-age novel set in the late 1970’s in New York and Montana, centers o...
10 comments:

#96-revision

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Dear Query Shark: I invite you to consider reading my complete manuscript=0 Atitled HER SECRET. HER SECRET. My guess is that you put in...
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#95

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Dear Query Shark, The needle glinted in the moonlight as Samantha prepared to plunge it into the President’s neck. Vengeance lay in her g...
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#94

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Dear Query Shark: As you read this letter, you are secure in your surroundings. Dial 911 anywhere in the country, and armed men will rush ...
21 comments:
Sunday, January 18, 2009

#93-Revision

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Dear Query Shark, I’m seeking representation for The Last Baby Boomer, my completed 67,165-word work of literary fiction. It is the year...
23 comments:

#92

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Dear Query Shark, In a world where movies control every facet of human life, one man will stand up to the status quo . The motion picture i...
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#91

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Dear Query Shark: Who is eviscerating men in small town Louisiana? FBI agent Trey Fontaine returns to Raven Bayou as a handler for an unde...
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#90-Revised

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Dear Query Shark: I see that you represent mystery/crime genre authors and I thought that you might be interested in my novel AN INCONVENI...
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#89

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Dear Query Shark, In her youthful naivety, Ghuri, destroys her reputation by having an affair with a married man. She is on her way to bec...
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Saturday, January 3, 2009

#88-Revised Twice

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Dear Query Shark: Anne Wells expects nothing from life but to be married to the man she loves and to do what society expects in Regency En...
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#87-Revised

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Dear Query Shark: I found your name in Publisher's Weekly and read your biography on your agency's website. Since we share interes...
9 comments:
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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