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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 ...

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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'...

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....

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 ...

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...

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...

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