Query Letter Sample
I'm still not published in book length fiction, but I've had good luck with requests for partials and fulls with the following basic query letter. Thought I'd share with any other wanna-be writers out there. Best of luck to you!
D A N I T A S H A T T U C K
00000 Writer Lane, Anywhere, OR, USA
phone here, and email addy
January 24, 2005
Jayne Smyth, Editor or Agent
Best Literary House
123 Woo-Hoo Street
New York, NY 10000
Dear Ms. Smyth:
Best-selling author, Elizabeth Boyle, recently taught at a workshop I attended. She compared my writing style to Janet Evanovich’s. Red Moon Rising, an 84,000-word, chick-lit thriller, is like a Stephanie Plum novel on chilled espresso. It involves best friends, fine male asses, and standing up for what is right – even if it gets you killed.
Along the way to solving a double-death riddle, feisty crime reporter, Toni McBride (to her dismay) finds herself physically attracted to her girl friend. Attracted that is, until her best friend (or should we make that ex-best friend?) starts dating the man whose also piqued Toni’s interest. It takes a hot-air balloon crash, getting fired from her job, and a couple of perilously close calls with a crazed killer before Toni unravels the riddle, sets things straight with her best pal, and realizes that the real Mr. Right Now, is right beside her.
Writing credits: I am a member of RWA, the Chick Lit and Mid-Willamette Valley RWA chapters, and an online critique group. A freelance writer, and past crime reporter, I stay involved with law enforcement as a volunteer with the local sheriff’s mounted search and rescue team. Red Moon Rising is my second novel and the first in the Toni McBride series.
To give you a sense of my writing style, I have included the first six pages. May I send you a partial or a full manuscript? Please note, a requested full of Red Moon Rising is under consideration at Blah-Blah Publishing House. Enclosed is a SASE for your reply. Please feel free to recycle the pages.
Thank you for your time,
Danita Shattuck
D A N I T A S H A T T U C K
00000 Writer Lane, Anywhere, OR, USA
phone here, and email addy
January 24, 2005
Jayne Smyth, Editor or Agent
Best Literary House
123 Woo-Hoo Street
New York, NY 10000
Dear Ms. Smyth:
Best-selling author, Elizabeth Boyle, recently taught at a workshop I attended. She compared my writing style to Janet Evanovich’s. Red Moon Rising, an 84,000-word, chick-lit thriller, is like a Stephanie Plum novel on chilled espresso. It involves best friends, fine male asses, and standing up for what is right – even if it gets you killed.
Along the way to solving a double-death riddle, feisty crime reporter, Toni McBride (to her dismay) finds herself physically attracted to her girl friend. Attracted that is, until her best friend (or should we make that ex-best friend?) starts dating the man whose also piqued Toni’s interest. It takes a hot-air balloon crash, getting fired from her job, and a couple of perilously close calls with a crazed killer before Toni unravels the riddle, sets things straight with her best pal, and realizes that the real Mr. Right Now, is right beside her.
Writing credits: I am a member of RWA, the Chick Lit and Mid-Willamette Valley RWA chapters, and an online critique group. A freelance writer, and past crime reporter, I stay involved with law enforcement as a volunteer with the local sheriff’s mounted search and rescue team. Red Moon Rising is my second novel and the first in the Toni McBride series.
To give you a sense of my writing style, I have included the first six pages. May I send you a partial or a full manuscript? Please note, a requested full of Red Moon Rising is under consideration at Blah-Blah Publishing House. Enclosed is a SASE for your reply. Please feel free to recycle the pages.
Thank you for your time,
Danita Shattuck
posted by Danita Shattuck @ 3:37 PM
1 Comments:
At 8:30 PM,
Paty Jager said…
This is a good query. It shows your writing style!
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