Writer Unboxed » Query Letter FAQs (Part II): 10 More Questions Answered

Oh, I love these things! Writer Unboxed » Query Letter FAQs (Part II): 10 More Questions Answered. I particularly like this one: 4. How many query rejections would necessitate a major overhaul of the query? Submit no more than 10 queries to start. If only 0-1 respond with requests for more, then you’ve got a …

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“How Long Should a Book Be” and Other Readers Digest Resources

I've already said that I'm obsessed with word counts. So that's the link that caught my eye when I got last week's Guide to Literary Agents newsletter. But, hey! They were actually doing a collection of some of their best and most popular links, which is why they were all ridiculously useful. Here they are, …

2013 Guide to Literary Agents

The 2013 Guide to Literary Agents is out! I'm actually kind of flustered about this. I got the 2012 Guide last year as a Christmas present, since I was intending on spending all year annoying the daylights out of agents. And... I haven't. I'm starting a new project and am letting Autumn sit for a …

Successful Queries | WritersDigest.com

Ahhh! I was complaining about query letters just last week. But then the biweekly Writer's Digest newsletter came out yesterday, and it turns out that they have a whole series on novel queries: Successful Queries | WritersDigest.com. Goodness, so much for my feeling that novel queries were less gimmicky than magazine queries. Some of these …