I make things up and write them down. I hope one day someone will read them and believe me, and then print out a copy for someone else to read. Until then, would you believe me if I told you
In truth, there isn’t a single most common error that puts me off a query letter… It’s never about one thing in the letter. It’s about every facet of the query letter as a whole. And even then, if you put the same good query letter in front of 10 different agents, all 10 of them might have a different response. And some would ask for sample pages and the others wouldn’t.
- Kristin Nelson on what makes a successful (or unsuccessful) query letter.
Stood out:
3) I have written two trilogies, a novella, and one cook book that I would like to publish.
7) Melanie thought she knew everything she had to know about men.
8) You rejected my first novel when you were an editor at Doubleday…
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