Query Letter Writing: My Favorite Links

I’ve written other posts about my own process for both Finding an Agent, learning to write Query Letters and the framework I’ve used to help writers with their back flap copy and queries, but here’s a list of the resources I most often direct other writers to when they ask me for help with their query letters. Most of these are also linked in the posts above, but I thought it might be nice to have all my favorite links all in one place.

The Query Shark: I basically learned how to write a query from studying all of the examples and critiques and advice on this blog. It is my all-time favorite resource.

Jane Friedman’s Complete Guide to Query Letters: Jane Friedman is widely respected and she updates the information on her query letter page regularly. It’s full of great advice and resources.

Quite the Query: This is Amy Trueblood’s archive of successful query letters from writers in a variety of genres. I think it is so helpful to study queries that worked and see how they both stick to the form and deviate from it, to see what YOU gravitate towards in a query and where you get bored.

Libbie Hawker’s YouTube videos on writing back flap copy and query letters: The same methods work for both!