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How can I tell which advice about query letters to follow–and ignore? Where can I get a query letter critique? Create Irresistible Query Letters My name isMark Malatestaand I’m a former literary agent and the former president and owner ofNew Brand Agency Group. I’m also the former Mark...
I argue that your query letter hook involvesmoreinformation, not less. If you leave agents and publishers hanging with a rhetorical question, for example, by ending yourMr. Tiger Goes WildandThe Sun Is Also a Starquery letters this way: Will Mr. Tiger be true to himself? Will Daniel and ...
Most publishers expect the book proposal process to begin with a query letter or e-mail, briefly stating what a proposed book is about, who the market is and why you're the author to write it. Publishers are more likely to actually read query letters than anything else you send precisely...
When I was the editor of a writers magazine I received queries like that or queries for articles that showed the writer had never even heard of the magazine let alone read a copy. It was obvious they were blind-sending query letters to any and every magazine he found. ...
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Unfortunately, Americans are so heavily exposed to hard-sell techniques that many aspiring writers make the mistake of using their query letters to batter the agent with predictions of future greatness so over-inflated (and, from the agent’s point of view, so apparently groundless, coming from ...
If you wish, you can take advantage of my drawer-full of rejection letters and try something similar to what finally succeeded for me. Something my dog taught me: direct, honest begging. Sad, but true. My query letter is nothing more than the humanization of Kismet at the dinner table. ...
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