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

Thursday, April 28, 2016

#276-revised once

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Revision #1 Mira is a thirty-two year old writer in Brooklyn whose past relationship, soul-sucking job, and frequent writer’s block all dr...
19 comments:
Saturday, February 6, 2016

#275

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Dear Query Shark, Blind Trust (fact-based fiction) is complete at 83,000 words. Right from the start my eyes are rolling. "Fact bas...
11 comments:
Sunday, January 31, 2016

#274-revised 1x

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  Dear QueryShark, If the Ancients knew what Blackwater had been through, they would have asked someone else to save the world. The An...
14 comments:
Saturday, January 16, 2016

#273

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 When writing the query I had realized there was no possible way to write a succinct summary for so many timelines and character lines f...
15 comments:
Saturday, October 31, 2015

#272-Revised 1x

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Revision #1   --> Dear QueryShark, Drew Nolan knew cooperation could make his life easier, but only if he betrayed everything...
7 comments:
Sunday, October 4, 2015

#271

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Question: Frankly, I'm bumfuzzled. I've attended break-outs at conferences, talked to a former-agent, read all your archives (rea...
12 comments:
Saturday, September 26, 2015

#270-Revised 2x

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Revision #2 Dear QueryShark: His dead mother's voice stabs Ramanya in his ears and wakes him: "I'm alive. So is your siste...
16 comments:
Saturday, February 28, 2015

#269-revised twice

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Revision #2 Sandra Lee Johnson's fledgling career as a government assassin may have been permanently derailed. This makes me think t...
33 comments:
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