WIP Diagnostic: Is This Working? A Closer Look at a Romance Query Letter

Critique By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy

WIP is a weekly column that studies a snippet of a work in progress for specific issues. Readers are encouraged to send in work with questions, and we diagnose it on the site. It’s part critique, part example, and designed to help the submitter as well as anyone else having a similar problem.

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This week’s questions:

I fear it reads more like a book cover blurb instead of a query. I'm not sure if I should bring in more to increase conflict but I am trying to sell a romance. Should I?

Market/Genre: Romance Query

On to the diagnosis…

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