Query letters: the college application of the writing world. The thing standing between you and all your literary dreams. The sheer importance of this one little page is enough to give anyone hives. I mean, how can you possibly boil down your 90,000-word masterpiece, the baby you’ve labored over for years—into a few snappy paragraphs? … Read more

To help you pull the pieces of your query letter together, and see an example of one that worked, I’ve put my own query letter below. I’m going to be honest with you, it’s not perfect. There are parts of it that I look back at now and cringe, but my query letter did what … Read more

When I was in the query-trenches, articles about how writers got their agents were always my favorites to read. It seemed like if I just read one more article or watched one more interview, I’d be able to capture that lightning in a bottle and use it to attract an agent of my own. And, … Read more