This was so useful! I know basically nothing about query letters (I don't even want to look back at what I've sent to agents in the past....) so it's great to have this as a resource. Thank you ☺
These are great tips (wish I would've had these when trying to find an agent I must have sent the most embarrassing shit in the early days) - controversially I've been receiving a few queries letters lately that have actual headlines in the letter. e.g. "Book", "Author", "Plot" and it's low-key incredibly refreshing as the person reading the letters. I also wish more query letters specified what phase of development the book is in. It's really hard to know if a book has been developmentally edited, has no editorial passes, has been commercially edited etc.
Ooo interesting! I've seen some things about headlines as well...I follow Alyssa Matheisic on Substack and I believe she had an example a while back of a succesful query that used those sorts of headlines - I could see it being very helpful with that skim :) Do you think they don't because the assumption is the book has been brought as far as it can by the author and their resources prior to querying? I can see where it would be hard to gauge from the query!
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This was brilliant! What a great idea
Ahh thank you so much!! It was really fun!
This was so useful! I know basically nothing about query letters (I don't even want to look back at what I've sent to agents in the past....) so it's great to have this as a resource. Thank you ☺
Yay!! I'm so glad! This was so fun to make haha...might be one of my fave videos :)
OK, that query letter was _painful_ to listen to LOL! Great summary of tips, though!
Lol it was veryyyy cringe...I had some devious fun writing it though haha 😂
These are great tips (wish I would've had these when trying to find an agent I must have sent the most embarrassing shit in the early days) - controversially I've been receiving a few queries letters lately that have actual headlines in the letter. e.g. "Book", "Author", "Plot" and it's low-key incredibly refreshing as the person reading the letters.
I also wish more query letters specified what phase of development the book is in. It's really hard to know if a book has been developmentally edited, has no editorial passes, has been commercially edited etc.
Ooo interesting!
I've seen some things about headlines as well...I follow Alyssa Matheisic on Substack and I believe she had an example a while back of a succesful query that used those sorts of headlines - I could see it being very helpful with that skim :)
Do you think they don't because the assumption is the book has been brought as far as it can by the author and their resources prior to querying? I can see where it would be hard to gauge from the query!