After many false starts, the query letter for the book is ready. Ostensibly when you’re on the outside looking in and have zero contacts in the publishing biz, the best bet is to query a prospective agent about your manuscript. Or so all the books and web resources say.

This theory makes a lot of sense to me. Because if the query letter is good, and grabs the interest of the agent, then maybe, just maybe the manuscript is good too. If the query letter is awful, it’s a lot easier, faster and cheaper to reject a query letter than a manuscript or a bunch of sample chapters.

Now armed with the query letter and the almost completed revisions from editor person, I’m ready to roll.

As I query prospective agents, I’ll blog about it and when the responses come back, I’ll post them as well, blacking out the contact information.

I’ll also post the query letter that wins over the agent. There’s a ton of books and resources on writing query letters for fictional books, but next to no examples of an actual one that won over an agent. How helpful.