Irresistible Query Letters: 40+ Real World Query Letters With Literary Agent Feedback
About this ebook
You can perfect your pitchcraft, though. All you need is the right advice from an industry insider, and the context of real world sample queries. Unfortunately, aspiring writers don't get to peek into the slush pile to see what their peers are doing. Until now.
Successful Query Letters pulls together more than forty authentic letters that worked (and some that could use revision) and breaks them down line by line with comprehensive feedback from Mary Kole, a former literary agent, author of Writing Irresistible Kidlit, freelance editor, and IP developer with over a decade of publishing industry experience. In addition to the queries and feedback, you'll be treated to insider advice on query, literary agent and publisher research, comparative titles, submission strategy, and more.
Successful Query Letters is a must-have resource for any writer hoping to get their work traditionally published. Buy it today and learn how to craft successful queries that will get you noticed by literary agents and publishing houses.
About the author
Former literary agent Mary Kole founded Mary Kole Editorial in 2013 and provides consulting and developmental editing services to writers of all categories and genres, working on children’s book projects from picture book to young adult, and all kinds of trade market literature, including fantasy, sci-fi, romance and memoir. She founded Good Story Company in 2019 with the aim of providing valuable content—like the Good Story Podcast and Crit Collective writing forum—to writers of all categories and ability levels.
She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and has worked at Chronicle Books, the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, and Movable Type Management. She has been blogging at Kidlit.com since 2009. Her book, Writing Irresistible Kidlit, a writing reference guide for middle grade and young adult writers, is available from Writer's Digest Books.
