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  Dear QueryShark: I don't want to be a smartass or anything.  I'm genuinely curious about something.  You insist that those who w...

 SUSPECTS-83,000 words. Put all the housekeeping stuff at the end. Start with the good stuff: what happens. Fourteen-year-old Charlen...

Dear Query Shark, When a stranger calls Trinity Esposito and asks her to donate bone marrow to the daughter she gave up for adoption sixte...

Dear Query Shark: The fading nation of Entropia is having a lousy time of it lately. No one visits anymore, and is it any wonder. The ai...

Dear Query Shark: A helicopter crashes. An airport is closed. Traffic blocks a highway. Are they related? Is it terrorism? Or somethi...

(date) You don't need the date in the body of a query letter.  I know when you sent it because my email management program tells me. ...

Dear Query Shark Maya will do anything to save Matthew, including pose as Arthur’s girlfriend, if he makes sure her young protégée’s medic...

Dear Query Shark: When Amanda Shaw is shipped off to her grandparents for the summer, she figures she's in for the most boring two mon...

I don't get many complaints about QueryShark. In fact, none before this one. Recently I sent a link to the QS to someone querying me. ...

Dear Query Shark, Pygmalionism gone awry, RUTHLESS AMBITION explores the life of Cassie Kincaid, an unattractive schizophrenic whose self-...

Dear Query Shark, Looking back, 16-year-old Marine Desmona can clearly count every one of her stupid mistakes. story starts here ------...

Dearest Agent; Ha! Dear QueryShark: Emily Jacobs, a senior at Maryland, is off for the summer. The last thing she remembers is walking ...

Dear QueryShark: Preparing to tape the races on the river, 'Mac' McCaskill stumbled on a brutal execution style murder. Even more...

Dear Query Shark, Neither of Susan’s parents were dentists, yet they molded their Southern belle to make a perfect impression. Translati...