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Sales Pitch- Query Letters

February 3, 2010 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What You Need Upfront: A typical query letter starts out with a hook, which is followed by the most important information an agent wants to know upfront: genre and word count. The Pitch: The next two paragraphs are the pitch: what happens. The hard part is fitting this into two paragraphs at the most while leaving something for the agent to wonder about-- a little tease. (In mine, for example, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Agents & Querying Tagged With: Agents, Fiction, pitch, queries, query letter

Find an Agent without Losing Your Mind- The Query Process

January 31, 2010 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Yes, I made a pact to query 100 agents before I would quit! In fact, I probably would have kept on going had I not gotten two offers of representation by the time I hit 83 queries. (see Query 100 Agents) How did I find all those agents? How did I keep track of my submissions and responses? Here's how: Extensive research first As of this date, there may be other resources, but when I was looking, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Agents & Querying, Publicity & Marketing Tagged With: Agents, Fiction, novel, queries, research agents

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Award- winning writer, poet & artist. Cynical optimist. Super klutz. Corgi fan. Author of two novels, a picture book which she wrote and illustrated, and five poetry chapbooks. More here.

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