Archive for the 'Query Letter' Category

How do you know your query letter is good to go?

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Last year (only a couple of weeks ago) I blogged about my effort of writing the best query letter I possibly could. And I did. I was so proud of it and after rewriting and tinkering with it from every angle; I finally set about my plan to send it to literary agents.

Only I didn’t.

I had those nagging feelings that something is still not quite right, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I reread my query for what seemed about a million times until my eyes got crossed. The query was long, about two pages and the more I read it the more I hated it.

Then, I did the unthinkable. Read more »

Writing is art, Publishing is business

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Here I am, sitting in front of the monitor, pissing at the blinking cursor in front of me. I did try to write my query letter. But all I get are complicated sentences that even the DH’s eyes started to glaze over while reading it.

Yeah, you know how it felt don’t you? I am talking to those who already published their debut or 100th novel out there. You’ve been there and done that. There is no mystery that writing the query letter taxes the business side of the writer—like me who now have to turn off the creative mind, turn it inside out and think like a business person—all to have a chance at marketing my novel through my query letter.
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