
Writing Excuses 6.5: Query Letters
Writing Excuses
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The Moral Grounding of a Debut Novel
I think it's hard for people to believe that you really can just write the description. Just tell me what the book is about get me to want to read it and find a way to get an agent, she says. I'm in almost everybody that I've taken on in my career has been a debut writer who wrote me out of the blue so you know it's not important especially for a debut fiction writer. Keep it simple keep it short this query letter would have been just as effective without that second paragraph It was interesting to think about the cycle that that sentence about psychological terror had when talking to editors.
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