Query letters are so much fun. I love them. Don’t be jealous because you don’t feel the same way. Query letters just make me want to …
There are so many rules there should be an encyclopedia just to contain them. And no matter how many times you write it out, somehow it just never seems to be quite right. And every agent wants it just a little different. You have to read through entire websites and at least five googled up interviews before you even attempt to write a query to a particular agent. That is a lot of fun. Especially in the summer vacation with kids in the house.
Anyways there are some sites I found really helpful and have been meaning to post them for quite a while. But I get distracted really easily. Did you know piranhas are really mean little buggers?
Oh and that Snooti Snooki just had a baby.
Of course then I just had to find out who she is. Ironically she has written a book and it has been published. I wonder how she managed to write the query letter. I wonder if she can spell query letter.
Sorry, got distracted. What was I talking about?
Query letters!
They really freak me out! Here are some places that were very helpful.
1.http://elanajohnson.blogspot.ca/p/writing-query-letter.html. She makes it seem so much easier. She breaks it down with lots of helpful examples.
2.http://www.nelsonagency.com/faq.html This is from the Nelson Agency Website. Very helpful.
3.http://agentqueryconnect.com/. This is a great site to learn lots and lots and lots and rant and moan and whine with other writers. And helpful. Helpful helpful.
4.http://www.americaneditingservices.com/. This is a website for an editor who was really nice and she helped me with my query a lot. I needed a lot of help. I now need a lot of vacation from summer vacation. So I can fit the lot of help I got into the rewriting of the query letter. Then I will pray I get a lot of requests. And a lot of books published. And eventually a lot of money. Then I will send a lot of my children to a lot of faraway schools so I can write a lot more without a lot of distractions. I get distracted easily. Did you know Mexican Salamanders are really weird-looking little critters?
(All Images are from Google Images)
khaula Siddique 
lol I am saving this for when I am ready to query…thanks
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Glad to have been of some use 😉
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Reblogged this on khaula mazhar and commented:
I am editing and will soon be querying (hopefully) so I pulled this out to amuse you. And if you too are about to send out query letters, there are some helpful links here.
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EXCELLENT blog! Helpful and funny…a great combination!
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Thanks for dropping by, I am glad it was helpful 🙂
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Have i told you, you are funny ? 😆
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No but tell me again and again 🙂
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You are hilarious girl! How is the book coming along?
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You know how I get distracted, I should be editing and sending out queries but I am not. I also got lost procrastinating for quite some days which is why I haven’t been over to visit, I am getting to that today. I also have two overdue library books. Should get to that too! What have you been up to? Checking your blog to find out!
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Overwhelmed! Got FPed along the way too ;-D
Take your time. I know how that feels.
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OH! COngrats on being FPed! Well deserved too 🙂
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Query… mhmmm, let me think about 😉 first of all, I try out the FAQ… then I let myself get out of the hand…
sometime I do have problems even in my mother language: italian, indeed 🙂
thank for the links have a lovely week (in the eastern part of the globe is already night, but here we still enjoy some swiss chocolate with a cup of hot tea!
Serenity to all the family
:-)claudine
PS check out Chrysalis Bartók, the female protagonist of my new Novel “The Annwyn’s Secret”
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chrysalis-Bart%C3%B3k/331089416973582
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Thanks for dropping by, I will be sure to check out Chrysalis. You made my mouth water at the thought of Swiss chocolate!
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So glad I’ve been spared the misfortune of having to write query letters that might interest editors! I usually just dump the stuff in their e-mail and wait to hear if they need it. Most of the time I can’t keep up with what is needed, so that keeps me from having to write many query letters… I give a lot of my stuff away free and so that’s probably why I don’t need many query letters… 🙂 Love your post. By the way, who’s Snookie?
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Lucky you. And lucky people getting free stuff! What do you write? Snookie is some reality show star, can you imagine having to watch badly dressed people bicker at other badly dressed people? Scary! Thanks for dropping by 🙂
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I write English Language haiku and haikai related forms of poetry.
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yes, I’ve enjoyed the haiku on your blog. I was wondering if you have ventured into novel writing 🙂
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LOVE this POST! Oh, me! Just found your site, now am going to check out the links you’ve included. I need all the help I can get with query letters, especially since I just read (here) that one query letter doesn’t fit all editors. Nowhere have I seen that until now. Ditto for the Mexican Salamander. Is that photo for real? Must go and see. I will Google it (him?) even before going to the helpful links. No, not golf links. I don’t do golf. It would drive me mad. Based on this blog alone, I’m now following you on Twitter.
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Thanks for dropping by. I hope you find the links useful, you should join Agent Query Connect. Got all the pictures from Google but I have seen the salamander. It is for real. Thanks for following on twitter, though I am not that great at tweeting. I usually have too much to say 😉
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Thanks for dropping by Roshni. See you learned so many important things today!
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Good leads!
Oh, and a cool salamander!
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I know, he is so cute. A little slimy but cute 🙂
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What I learnt from this post: Snooki just had a baby; Mexican salamanders look weird and piranhas are buggers. 🙂 Oh, and something vague about query letters? [Loved the post!]
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