Is This Your Query?

Literary Agent Janet Reid has a great post here on the reasons she turned down fifty queries, along with stats on how many of the queries fell into each no-thanks category. Aside from the fact that this is an excellent chance to get into an agent's head and see queries from her POV, it also serves as a quality assurance checklist for the query-writing author.

Let's run through the list of her reasons (quoted from her post), and I'll give you some ideas on how to tell if your query will get bou...