Querying query letters

[wryter]

Does anyone have recommendations for editors who evaluate query letters for novels?
Thanks

[SRHowen]

Does anyone have recommendations for editors who evaluate query letters for novels?
Thanks

I do, and I work with authors to develop their synopsis.

I have a workshop starting in July, no time right now as I am in the middle of buying a house soon to be followed by moving (which is a dirty word)

Run it past some beta readers and see my thread at: http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9780

might be worth trying.

Shawn

[LightShadow]

Does anyone have recommendations for editors who evaluate query letters for novels?
ThanksI put on my website what worked for me. Different approaches work for different people. Also, check out workshops, and study the guidelines of agents and publishers. You'll start to see common threads (no pun intended) between them, and that will give you your best ideas on what will work best for you.

On my site, if you want to check it out, queries can be found in the section "Becoming a Writer"

[Jamesaritchie]

Does anyone have recommendations for editors who evaluate query letters for novels?
Thanks

Sell yourself, not the novel.

[wryter]

Thanks Douglas, and your latest work sounds interesting. I've been doing a lot of research and there seems to be a consensus.

[wryter]

I guess my "query" wasn't clear. I was asking if the folks here knew of professionals who evaluated a writer's query before he/she submitted it to an agent.

[LightShadow]

I guess my "query" wasn't clear. I was asking if the folks here knew of professionals who evaluated a writer's query before he/she submitted it to an agent.A professional, I think, will tell you what works for him, and he learned by trial and error and research. Not that I'm saying the experts don't know what they're talking about, and most of them do, but mine came from years of rejections and toying with it until one worked, plus lots of research over what the agents and publishers were looking for in a query by way of workshops, books, and websites.