Hooray! This is the last installment of my querying series. (Read: I think this is the last installment of my querying series, unless, of course, the person who is critiquing it as I type comes back with drastic changes that need to be made... Never done, people. It's never truly done.) I used to read [...]
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Querying (Part III)
By now you've probably got a pretty good idea where I'm going with my queries. (Progressively better with each version, but still not quite "there.") This particular version netted me requests (both partial and full) from several agents. It's better, but it's still lacking. Dear (Agent), Though your website lists that you are currently [...]
Querying (Part II)
After a year and a half of constant rejection, I finally revised my first query into something a little more focused. It’s not quite as rambling as my first and it seems like maybe I knew a little bit more about what was going with my own book on at this point. Dear (Agent), I viewed [...]
Querying (Part I)
Any writer can google how to query, so contrary to the title of this post, I won't be teaching you how to query. There's tons of information out there regarding how to query a literary agent — what to say, what not to say, how to say it, and how to say it well. No lie. Querying is hard. In a [...]
L. Ryan Storms 