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Question: After a lot of back and forth with critique partners, I ended up writing a non-standard query letter. It got better feedback by f...

Question: I describe Woman in the Wind as a literary crime novel but am unsure. It’s certainly not a straight crime novel because while the ...

Question: The pivotal scene in my manuscript is the rape of the main character. My last beta reader said she had nightmares for two days ab...

Dear QueryShark, This is not Hallie's bed. She has never been to this house. The diamond ring on her left hand does not belong to he...

Revision #1  Dear QueryShark: Thirty-nine-year-old Chicago bartender, Jesse Chasen, the self-sabotaging black sheep of her family, rece...

Questions: I’ve read through the other blogs and did my best, but I feel like I’m having trouble picking and choosing what parts to keep and...

 Revision #2 Dear Query Shark: She-wolf is a nickname Mina Hearst has earned as an elite assassin whose instincts never let her down...

a. word count: 62,000 b. title: COPY PASTE c. contact info: Why you put this at the top of your query letter I do not know. It goes at ...

Dear Query Shark, Niall Lewis is in the high school of his dreams. His classes utilize the world’s most advanced virtual reality systems—f...

Dear Query Shark: The Three Little Pigs went out into the world to make their fortune--which proves that there is a fortune to be made in ...

Question: I am stuck, drowing in a pit of regretions. I have revised, read all your posts and done the dance. There has to be something I a...

Dear QueryShark: Some thing is watching Earth and has been doing so since the dawn of civilization. Alexander Price, commander of the ...