From the course: Sell Your Novel to a Major Publisher
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Introduction to the query letter
From the course: Sell Your Novel to a Major Publisher
Introduction to the query letter
(mellow electronic music) - [Narrator] As I mentioned before, there's one golden ticket that gets you through the doors of a literary agency. And that is the query letter. It's so important, in fact, that I've dedicated an entire section of this course to it. The query letter is, once again, your proof to all of those people that your concept is sellable because if you, the author, the person who wrote the book, can't make it sound like the most amazing book in the world, how do you expect all those other people to? On the other hand, if you can sell your novel to an agent in one query letter, then that agent knows she'll be able to sell it to an editor who knows she'll be able to sell it to her boss, and so on and so forth, all the way to the hands of the reader. Although every literary agency has their own set of submission guidelines, that is, instructions on how they'd like to be approached with new submissions, the majority of agencies will require that you first send a query…
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