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

Sunday, October 31, 2021

#337

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WYSTERIA Wysteria Collins don't cap the names of your characters in a query. That's for synopses and film scripts.   is the t...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021

#336

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Dear Query Shark, When Wren’s weird dreams begin to take on a reality all their own, she finds a strangely addictive second life in her ...
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Sunday, June 28, 2020

#335

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“That roof is the wrong shape to talk to God.” Chloe Reed hears this inside her head when she looks up in a coffeeshop, her house, her...
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Sunday, April 5, 2020

#334

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Revision #1 Cinis Munimoh ripped her best friend’s teeth out on purpose, uttering thanks when the favor was returned. As first sentence...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

#333

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Questions: 1.) I know you said that mentioning my self- publishing published novels (despite the tens of books I sold) is a no-go, but ho...
Sunday, December 8, 2019

#332

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Question: I wrote LOST IN LA as a retelling of Pretty Woman with “modern” social issues, but I don’t know whether to focus on the charact...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

#331

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I have so many questions, but I’ll whittle them down to two. First, do you think I’m correct in describing this as literary fiction? Secon...
Sunday, September 8, 2019

#330

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Question: I do not have much as far as credentials are concerned other than personal experience driving my story but I do have a larg...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

#329

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I broke the rules...unapologetically so. I rhymed, alliterated, lyricized, used big words, topped it off with an adult narrative. And yes...
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Sunday, January 20, 2019

#328

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Hello: I have written a manuscript “Baked Lunch” and I'm soliciting agents and publishers. Brief Synopsis: I have written an update ...
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Sunday, December 2, 2018

#327

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Dear Query Shark, MOB TREASURE is the story of Joseph, a recent New Jersey college grad, who discovers his recently deceased grandfather w...
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