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How many things are wrong with this query letter? Let us count the ways.

How many things are wrong with this query letter? Let us count the ways.

by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog, Publishing

This query arrived in my inbox this morning. It is possibly a joke, but experience tells me it is not. I have pasted it verbatim. How many things about it can you count that would irritate a prospective literary agent? (Not including the fact that the author attached...
What do I look for in an unsolicited manuscript?

What do I look for in an unsolicited manuscript?

by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 13, 2012 | Blog, Publishing

The Out of Print Writing blog has just published a short series of interviews with an Australian publisher (Rebecca Starford, Affirm Press), an Australian literary agent (me) and a writer (Neil Randall) on what happens when a writer gets “a nibble” of...
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