When it doubt, research/double-check as needed. Also: it has been a long time since I personally queried agents and despite my best efforts to confirm that everything in this series remains accurate, some best practices/standards may have shifted in ways I’m unaware of.
Standards and norms shared in this series are for authors pursuing the trad route, though there are indeed things any writer can learn from the posts. Keep in mind that I’m approaching this from the context of traditional publishing. Requests you may see from agents and email templates for responding
Getting/staying organized and developing a querying strategy In the weeks ahead, you can look forward to: Today, in part one, I’ll break down how to write the query itself, recap best practices, provide general dos and don’ts, and share my own query letter (along with a fill-in-the-blanks template so that you can get the bones of your own query on paper.) But at the same time, I promise I won’t stretch this series out for too long. These parts won’t come back-to-back-I’ll still have other posts/content between them so as not to bore anyone uninterested in querying info. I consistently get asked to revisit this topic and since it’s such a big one, I’ve decided to tackle it as a four-part series that I’ve aptly titled How to Query.
Several years ago, when I still wrote for the group blog Publishing Crawl, I posted a very basic “Querying Dos and Dont’s” piece. Now I’m back and recharged and ready for another year of newsletter content. I, for one, definitely enjoyed (and needed) the break. Happy New Year! I hope you had a lovely holiday with friends and family.
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