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

Sunday, October 30, 2011

#213

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Dear Query Shark Amy’s a problematic drinker brooding over a fantasy world and her dead mother. Carrie’s overly uptight and spurns Dean’s ...
18 comments:
Sunday, October 23, 2011

#212-Revised-FTW

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Dear QueryShark: Felix Ramos had always dreamt of working in space, but a journalism degree does not an astronaut make. Given an unlikely ...
34 comments:
Sunday, October 16, 2011

#211-Revised 7x-for the win!

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Dear QueryShark: Randi needs rock and roll to fuel her rise from the ashes of the past year. She's back on stage fronting her old ban...
48 comments:
Sunday, October 2, 2011

#210-Revised 2x

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Dear QueryShark: Rowan hears the clinking of the iron shackles binding her wrists and curses herself for her foolishness. It is her own f...
33 comments:
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Pause for a recap

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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...
13 comments:
Sunday, August 21, 2011

#209-Revised 1x

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 SUSPECTS-83,000 words. Put all the housekeeping stuff at the end. Start with the good stuff: what happens. Fourteen-year-old Charlen...
25 comments:
Sunday, August 14, 2011

#208-Revised 1x

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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...
13 comments:
Saturday, July 30, 2011

#207-Revised 1x

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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...
27 comments:
Saturday, June 25, 2011

#206

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Dear Query Shark: A helicopter crashes. An airport is closed. Traffic blocks a highway. Are they related? Is it terrorism? Or somethi...
23 comments:
Sunday, June 19, 2011

#205-Revised

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(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. ...
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