I submitted several
different kinds of queries and the last one I sent out was very formal.
Not exact matches
The answer to my initial
query was, «Dave's not doing any talking at the moment but let's keep in touch once he's out
of the studio and ready to get back in front
of a
different kind of mic.»
The odd reactive format makes trying
different queries fun in a choose - your - own - adventure
kind of way, and the search results seem to be useful enough.
My change
of heart has come after
querying over 300 agents for three
different manuscripts over the course
of the last 2 - 3 years and barely getting anything more than form rejections... the
kind where I can tell the agent didn't fully read my
query or get to the sample pages or synopsis.
But a
query uses a
different kind of writing skills — skills you're going to need whether you publish traditionally or not.