With the finished product in sight, we are moving our focus to the dreaded query letter.
For those with little or no writing experience, the query letter is the piece of writing that may be even more important than your actual book. It is the piece of the publishing puzzle that gets your foot in the door with the person that says "Yay" or "Nay." Usually "Nay."
In fact, I believe Webster's defines query as: "The act of begging your ass off to have someone of importance briefly glance at your life's work"
Well, that's where we're at now. We figure we have about 2-3 weeks to put together a masterpiece query, one that will let a publisher know that we have THE GREATEST SCI-FI NOVEL EVER WRITTEN!
And no, I'm not biased.
A great resource for mastering this art is Charlotte Dillon's website. Lots of great articles and instruction.
The moral of this post? You've written a good, solid book. Don't slack off now, because your greatest writing challenge lays ahead.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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Query letters are FUN! Of course, this comes from someone who writes them all the time.
Another good resource for query letters...Ah crap, the website is down. Well, when it's back up, www.upstartcrowliterary.com has a fine example of what a query letter to an agent should look like.
Have fun!
Here's the direct link:
http://www.upstartcrowliterary.com/toolbox.html
Then click on How to Write a Query Letter for the pop-up. :)
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