If getting your manuscript in the hands of an agent or editor is your goal for 2010, you will need a strong, titillating, one-paged query letter. Many agents and editors ask either for a query only first or for the query, synopsis and possible sample chapters, so no matter how you slice it, you will inevitably have to create a query letter.

Agents and editors can receive hundreds of queries in a week, sometimes in a day, so the look of and content within your query letter are extremely important. You don’t want to give him/her an unnecessary reason to reject you.

Read my latest The Write Life for You article on writing query letters; head to APOOO Books to read ["Writing Your Query Letter"].

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