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Sample
Query Letters
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work.
Dear
Editor:
Research into
your current portfolio tells us you are actively seeking to acquire
self-help books. Our literary agency believes Weight Matters,
Ultimate Weight Loss Solutions written by our client Augustin
Jackson is worthy of your consideration.
Allow me to briefly point out a few details about this work.
- This
motivational 18,272 word manuscript will help readers actually
conceptualize and systematically realize a life of daily
improvement that was previously unfathomable in thoughts.
- Weight
Matters, Ultimate Weight Loss Solutions
takes readers into a more detailed process of needs analysis,
goal setting, developing strategies for goal implementation, and
strategies of goal maintenance and evaluation. Each chapter is
devoted to addressing a specific issue that readers face in
pursuing an individualized fitness program. Additionally, each
chapter uses familiar scenarios with a hint of comedy to help
readers understand that they are not alone and that all problems
areas are just stepping stones to success.
- This
book is an addition to the televised exercise and cooking
program entitled “Weight Matters, Complete Fitness From The
Couch To The Kitchen” that broadcast during the Fall 2005
season on the Healthy Living Channel and currently in the
Cleveland metropolitan area. The program emphasizes in-home
exercises and sensible cooking that helps viewers address their
fitness needs.
- Augustin
Jackson has been a Certified Personal Trainer since 2002 and has
dedicated himself to helping children, teens and adults
experience positive, healthy lives through personal fitness. He
earned a Bachelor’ degree in Science and Finance and a
Master’s degree in Exercise Science. As a TV program producer
and on air personality, he serves kids through "Kidzcamp
Adventures" and adults through "Fit by the
Minute" and "Fit for the Soul." He is also the
President of "Benefitness for Life" and owner of
4Lifers.com.
- This
manuscript was professionally edited by Cheryl L. Williams.
I
believe we have followed your submission guidelines (see attached)
and I look forward to your reply within the timeframes you have set
forth.
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Dear
Editor:
Research
into your current portfolio tells us you are actively seeking to
acquire
instructional/how-to (Poker) books
. Our literary agency believes Chiapelli’s
“Live” Way to Play Poker written by our client Larry
Chiapelli is worthy of your consideration.
Allow me to briefly point out a few details about this work.
- Learning how to play
and win the game of poker has reached new and much-improved
heights with the aid of this 62,642 word manuscript that is sure
to draw a great deal of attention.
- Understanding
the fundamentals of the heavily popularized and
celebrity-studded game of poker needs not be an impossibly
difficult feat. Written for the average person, this unique book
is guaranteed to both entertain and educate potential players
worldwide. The author, having completed years of extensive
research on this popular pastime, discovered that the available
guides speak to the reader in an inflated and excessively
technical language, making it that much more frustrating and
less attractive.
- With
a non-nonsense approach that is sure to guide even the most
novice player into success, this book will prove to race off
bookstore shelves. Also included are new topics that often go
unaddressed, such as gaming etiquette, online poker, and poker
room environments.
- Larry
Chiapelli, an automotive designer by trade, spun off into a
business of his own, growing flowers and plants. A
self-proclaimed creative inventor and highly organized
entrepreneur, Larry enjoys playing poker, customizing
motorcycles, cooking, welding and writing.
I
believe we have followed your submission guidelines (see attached)
and I look forward to your reply within the timeframes you have set
forth.
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Dear
Editor:
Research
into your current portfolio tells us you are actively seeking to
acquire works of fiction. Our literary agency believes What the
Heart Yearns For written by our client Valentina Ortico is
worthy of your consideration. Allow
me to briefly point out a few details about this work.
- A
romantic and suspenseful work of fiction, this 48,651 word
manuscript tells the story of a woman of great intelligence and
beauty, who could’ve had it all, but now finds herself alone
and carrying the heaviness of her past with her.
- Carmella
DiPaolo has arrived from the country living and open spaces of
Burlington, Vermont to the hustling, bustling metropolis of
Philadelphia where she now works as a secretary at
Grogan, Upjohn and Vandermeer, a job given to her by her best
friend, David Upjohn. Carmella soon meets Colin Underwood, a
handsome and bright attorney, fresh from England, who is caring
and sympathetic to those in need.
- Ultimately,
Colin is taken by Carmella and wants to help, but in doing so
finds himself delving into Carmella’s past. As Colin carefully
moves forward, Carmella’s shyness begins to slowly dissipate
and just as they are starting to come closer in their
relationship, secrets and deceit surface.
- Award-winning
poet Valentina Ortico, a native of Philadelphia, spent twenty
years after high school working in data entry for an
agricultural publisher, a medical publisher and a medical
college. Valentina found her inspiration in a British actor
named Colin Firth. It was while watching his movies and reading
about the continuing compassion to the causes he represents that
brought out that love to write.
This manuscript was professionally edited.
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Research
into your current portfolio tells us you are actively seeking to
acquire works of women’s fiction. Our literary agency believes Remember
Me written by our client Sandra D. Campbell is worthy of your
consideration. Allow me
to briefly point out a few details about this work.
- This
108,432 word romantic work of fiction will allow readers to
explore the tumultuous lives of two women who experience love
and overcome hardship in very unique ways.
- Laura
Rose, a twenty-four year old mother of twins, is devastated when
her husband, Sam, is killed by a tornado. She soon meets Adam
Parrish, a successful record producer from New York, whose offer
she eventually accepts. He falls for Laura but it takes time
before she falls in love with him. Believing that he is engaged
to another woman, she writes a poignant love song that she sings
directly to him during a concert. However, that night, they are
involved in a horrible accident that results in her amnesia. The
story continues into a second phase where Adam must make Laura
fall in love with him all over again.
- Part
Two of the book touches upon the life of an abused teenager
named Pam Lancaster who was strongly affected by Laura Rose.
After being beaten by her alcoholic father for most of her life,
she flees with the help of a doctor and police officer to begin
a new life in Houston where she meets Mark Bastian. Their love
soon ends when she sees a half-naked woman walk out of his
bedroom. As to her father, it isn't until her father almost dies
saving her life, that she is able to build a relationship with
him.
- Sandra
D. Campbell lives in the suburbs of Detroit and is the mother of
three grown daughters, four grandchildren, and one
step-grandson. She retired in 2003 from a thirty-seven year
career at the U. S. Postal Service and now has the time to write
the stories she has wanted to write for decades.
The manuscript was critiqued by Writers Literary
Service, Inc.
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Dear
Editor:
Research
into your current portfolio tells us you are actively seeking to
acquire works of gothic fiction. Our literary agency believes Kindred
written by our client Ronald Garcia Orrantia is worthy of your
consideration. Allow me
to briefly point out a few details about this work.
- This
suspenseful 161, 698 word occult thriller features an intriguing
protagonist who is faced with unfortunate circumstances that
take him far from home and deep inside an underground world he
never knew existed.
- After
the death of his mother, things take a turn for the worse for
Matthew Davies. He soon learns that his real name is Adam Moray
and must relocate to Montana where he meets family and a girl
named Mary to whom he is immediately drawn. He slowly begins to
remember painful childhood memories with Mary’s help and
learns that he has been receiving prophecies, a gift from his
father's bloodline. Adam is taken further into the family coven
and soon sees visions about his father’s death before
uncovering that the family plans to take his and Mary’s unborn
baby.
- The
story eventually comes to a riveting conclusion as the
family’s attempt to possess Adam and Mary’s child is
unsuccessful. Adam is finally able to bring closure to his life
after a vision of his father’s death leads him to shoot his
uncle, who was not only involved but could possibly be his real
father.
- Ronald
Garcia Orrantia, a native of southern California, started
writing at the age of fourteen. He has been a student of
psychology, specifically abnormal, and has spent some time
researching all religions. Some of Ronald’s poetry has been
published with the International Society of Poets, from whom he
has have received consecutive Editor's Choice awards for 2005
and 2006.
I believe we have followed your submission guidelines
(see attached) and I look forward to your reply within the
timeframes you have set forth.
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Dear
Editor:
Research into your current
portfolio tells us you are actively seeking to acquire poignant
works of fiction for older girls. Our literary agency believes The
Cemetery Lady written by our client Denise Maureen Congleton is
worthy of your consideration. Allow
me to briefly point out a few details about this work.
- Accurate
in its portrayal of today's pre-pubescent woman, this 58,000
word manuscript features a young female protagonists whose
struggle to overcome a bully and personal demons will encourage
girls to accept themselves and understand their own
circumstances.
- Grace
Kallen, not a child but not quite a teenager, spends her days
wishing people would stop staring at and gossiping about her
broken balcony. To her, it's just a conversation piece that she
and her dad don't talk about. Her biggest tormentor is the class
bully, Amy Hail, who will not let Grace live down her best
friend, her "haunted" house, and her broken family.
Instead of sitting back and taking it, Grace decides she'll
learn about her family by sifting through the family treasures
buried in the basement. Through the treasures, her dad shares
his memories.
- Ultimately,
Grace befriends Mrs. Empire, the lady she meets while walking
through the cemetery. Her newfound friend and confidant
encourages Grace to understand Amy, accept her father's
instability, and finally forgive her absent mother.
- Denise
Maureen Congleton attended Michigan State University to pursue
an English degree and become a teacher. After graduation, she
moved to Japan to teach English (ESL) to native Japanese middle
school students. Currently, she teaches middle school English in
Michigan.
Denise has had short stories and poems published in an
annual college publication. This manuscript was professionally
edited by Writers Literary, Inc.
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