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

Sunday, January 28, 2018

#296-Revised once

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Dear QueryShark: Some thing is watching Earth and has been doing so since the dawn of civilization. Alexander Price, commander of the ...
13 comments:
Sunday, January 21, 2018

#295

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Questions: 1) This novel has a lot of action, but it's about the complications and mounting tension in the main character's lif...
12 comments:
Saturday, January 13, 2018

#294-Revised once

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Revision #1  Dear QueryShark: Thirteen-year-old Conrad wants to believe he's on the side of light, but jealousy, bitterness, and ang...
3 comments:
Sunday, January 7, 2018

#293

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Question:  It has taken me countless edits of this query to get it where it is now, but it still garners no positive responses. I am won...
7 comments:
Sunday, November 19, 2017

#292

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Question: I have revised my query until my fingers bled. And yet nothing. So I am wondering if I'm doing something in my query to put ag...
8 comments:
Saturday, July 22, 2017

#291

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Questions: Will beginning each part of my book with a stanza be a total turn-off for agents? Not including it in a response to a request ...
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Sunday, July 2, 2017

#290-Revised once

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Revision Dear Queryshark, Aisha Batu is not a typical housemaid. She is educated, she wears expensive clothes, and her employers Henry a...
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Sunday, June 4, 2017

#289

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Question: So in my end paragraph as you'll see that I included comments about the representation that's in my story. And yes, I'...
15 comments:
Sunday, May 7, 2017

#288-FTW

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QUESTIONS: 1) Initially I had more words dedicated to each section, but worried it’d be nothing but loglines and you’d eat me alive....
15 comments:
Friday, April 14, 2017

#287-Revised 1x

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Dear Query Shark: Realtor Reed Winford suspects something is wrong with the historic house he has agreed to sell for an old client but he ...
8 comments:
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

#286-revised 1x

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Revision #1 Lesa has always looked like her father. But after her mother left, Lesa began to take on her father’s worse traits: his overwh...
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Sunday, November 27, 2016

#285-Revised once

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First revision Dear Query Shark: Eleven-year-old Emma Slate doesn't know she is the last guardian of magic. Not, that is, until her n...
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Saturday, October 1, 2016

#284-FTW

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Dear QueryShark: In 1957 a scream awakens 21-year-old Adina Claypool, who discovers she is on a mental ward. Again. The psychiatrists have...
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