This particular story reveals how Siobhan, a thriller fiction author, wrote a query letter that got the attention of top book agents — after getting lots of rejections with
her original agent query.
Not exact matches
She revealed that when her
original agent left the business right before she was supposed to go on submission to editors, she elected to start the
query process over rather than end up with a random colleague from the same agency.
To celebrate Scott's awesome news, I'm delighted to share with my blog readers Scott's
original query letter that landed me as his
agent and resulted in an auction for a mid-6 figure young adult book deal.
This model has some inherent flaws, according primarily to the comments left on the
original article from Calvin Reid that appeared this week on Publisher's Weekly's website, namely that
agents and publishers hardly need to pay for
queries from authors.