Query that caught my agent’s eye
I’ve blogged about how I targeted agents by keeping a detailed reading list and focusing on agents who repped novels that I could relate to my own work (targeting agents). Here is my actual query letter with my commentary in bold:
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Targeting Your Submissions
As writers, the most important thing we can do is read, right? But if you’re like me, you can’t remember what flavor rice cake you ate yester morn, much less the details of the 200 books you were supposed to read last year. Couple that with the oft-heard advice to “do your research†and “target your submissions,†and new writers everywhere can be heard mumbling, “What the denouement does targeting your submissions mean?â€
