The Failed Query

I've talked about the query I wrote that resulted in an offer of representation from Bob Mecoy. But what I haven't talked about in detail is the query I tried to write before that which was not as successful.


There were a number of reasons the first query was terrible. First of all, I spent a lot of time looking at other queries. That isn't a bad thing, but not every book requires the same kind of query and there are certain phrases that tend to be particular to various genres, phrases that ar...