Showing posts with label Query. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Query. Show all posts
Monday, September 9, 2013

All about query letters - Matt MacNish

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    Matthew MacNish of the Quintessentially Questionable Query Experiment (QQQE) wrote this excellent guest post for us last year f...
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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Marketing. Are you too busy to do it?

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  I 've heard it all before. I don’t have time to market my book. Publicity is not my style. I’m really shy. Perhaps ...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Query Workshop 27--Race to Butch Cassidy's Gold

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Title: RACE TO BUTCH CASSIDY'S GOLD Genre: MG Mystery Twelve-year-old Maggie McCoy wants to be brave and spontaneous. But she’s not. Esp...
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Query Workshop 26-The Curiosity

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Title - The Curiosity Genre - Horror (historic) Revision 1 Dear Unicorn Bell, Anthropology Professor Duncan Clarke discovers, inside an a...
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Query Workshop 25--The Eldritch Tales

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Title: The Eldritch Tales Genre: YA Fantasy  Dear (Agent), A thief longing for redemption, a girl with no memories, and an evil god stric...
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Query Workshop 24--The Very First

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Title:  The Very First Genre:  Upper MG historical fiction When German-born Katherine Brandt immigrates in 1938, her dearest wish is to b...
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Query Workshop 23-On Common Ground

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Title: On Common Ground Genre: Speculative Fiction/ Urban Fantasy Officer Grace Rayne doesn’t know that her guardian angel Gabe exists. Nor ...
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Query Workshop 22--Who is Audrey Wickersham?

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Title: Who is Audrey Wickersham? Genre: Horror/paranormal REVISION 3 Audrey Wickersham loves books, horror movies and anything supernatu...
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Query Workshop 21-Revival: The Donald Braswell Story

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Title: Revival: The Donald Braswell Story Genre: Memoir Revision 1--down from 411 words to 206! Great job! Dear Agent, In 1995, a...
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Query Workshop 20--Wish

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Title: Wish Genre: YA Historical Fantasy Revision 1 Most seventeen-year old girls receive gifts on their birthday. Not Prism Chase. She i...
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Query Workshop 19--Soul Driver

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Title:Soul Driver Genre:YA Historical Fantasy Revision 2 River Morgan received an extraordinary gift for her sixteenth birthday. Her gran...
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Query Workshop 18--Joshua's Tree

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Title: Joshua's Tree Genre: YA Science Fiction Revision 1 Dear Ms. (agent's name), Set in the distant future, Joshua’s Tree is a Y...
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Query Workshop 17--Darkling

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Title: DARKLING Genre: YA Fantasy Dear Awesome Agent, Seventeen-year-old Taela does what she has to survive, but she doesn’t think of he...
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Query Workshop 16--Tagestraum

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TITLE:  Tagestraum GENRE:  Fantasy Dear [agent] When social worker Adrian Montgomery's seven-year-old client, Nathaniel, disappears from...
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Query Workshop 14--Let My Life Be Proof

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LET MY LIFE BE PROOF YA Contemporary Fiction Revision 1 LET MY LIFE BE PROOF is a 60,000 word Contemporary YA novel.       At seventeen, ...
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Query Workshop 13--And Jakob flew the Fiend Away

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Title:  And Jakob Flew the Fiend Away Genre:  Historical fiction, Bildungsroman Jakob DeJonghe can think of nothing but revenge when the N...
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Query Workshop 12--The Refugee

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Title:  The Refugee Genre:  Sci-Fi Thriller Ross Chambers is used to dodging bullets.  All kinds, too, from musket balls to machine-gun fire...
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Query Workshop 11--Finding Meara

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Title: Finding Meara Genre: Urban Fantasy Revision 1 Dear Agent, Twenty-six year old Hazel Michelli lived her dream life, full of easy m...
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Query Workshop 10--Times None

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Title: TIMES NONE Genre: YA Fantasy Revision 1 Dear Agent: Amanda Leonard doesn't know who her mother was. She wishes she did. Amanda...
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Query Workshop 9--The Curse Merchant

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Title: The Curse Merchant Genre: Adult Urban Fantasy Dorian Lake has spent years cornering the Baltimore hex-crafting market, twisting ka...
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