The “Why Me” Section. Many agents want to know why you are querying them instead of another agent. They won’t be impressed if you’re randomly querying every name you found on a website. There are two main ways to answer this question. First, you may have a personal connection to this agent. Perhaps you met…
The Overview. This is the longest and most important part of your query letter (typically 100 to 200 words). To quote well-known agent Andrea Somberg, “There are three things you absolutely need to include in your query letter …: (1) Who is the protagonist? (2) What is the conflict? (3) What is at stake?” There…
How much of your plot should you describe in your query letter, and in how much detail? What are the three most important questions a query letter needs to answer? How long should each section be? Those are the kinds of questions this blog answers. Most aspiring novelists struggle with the query letter. I certainly…
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