Do your homework first.
In fact, you can even try it out on someone else first, at Query Eagles. Here's the description of the site by the owner: "I set it up in response to various moanings by agents about the quality, or lack thereof, of query hook paragraphs. Often, as writer, you are so close to your work that you can write what you think is a perfect query paragraph for your novel, but which makes absolutely no sense to a person unfamiliar with the work...The community is about letting a few others read it before you post it off to someone 'important'."
A great idea. And if you post your query, wanting comments, don't forget to comment on other people's queries first as a matter of courtesy.
Other good sites to consult are Pub Rants (a US agent's site). And the now defunct Miss Snark. Do a subject search for their posts on the subject of queries.
About Me
- Glenda Larke
- Malaysia
- My life has been described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it is not my life, but me, that’s the exotic. I’m the uprooted plant, the exotic who doesn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
An Australian living in Malaysia. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens) and, writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar. The latest trilogy is called The Watergivers in Australia and the Stormlord trilogy elsewhere: THE LAST STORMLORD, STORMLORD RISING, STORMLORD'S EXILE
Havenstar
You can buy my first published book (now out of print) as an eBook for your kindle, most ereaders, iPad etc.
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1 comment:
I must confess I have never heard of query hook paragraphs before now. :S
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