Sample query letters

[K.S.R.]

Pamela had the great idea of posting sample query letters (or links to them) from various genres. Let's keep this thread clean, and use only samples that show both good and bad examples, not as a way of doing any self-promotion. Deal? Oh, and let's be sure to give credit where credit is due.

Before posting a query, or creating a link to one, please state what genre it is in.

Here are a few links that discuss how to structure them, etc.: (They are from Moira Allen's site, WritingWorld.com)

http://www.writing-world.com/basics/q...

email queries ("e" queries. Most editors have a preference for those now.)
http://www.writing-world.com/basics/e...

[K.S.R.]

Nicholas Sparks query for The Notebook.

Genre: Fiction, previously published author.
http://www.nicholassparks.com/Writers...

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Sample query.

Genre: Thriller
http://www.writing.org/html/a_query.htm