How to Ensure 75% of Agents Will Request Your Material

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While attending the Midwest Writers Workshop, I posted a summary of a talk given
by Marcus Sakey and John Gilstrap. Sakey
advised that query letters, if any good, would result in a 75% "send me something"
response.




I had no idea what a bomb I was throwing by tweeting and blogging that principle.
Thus, I asked Marcus to write a guest post further elaborating on it. Here he is!




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About two weeks ago I pissed a lot of you off.



I was attending the Midwest Writers Workshop at
the ...