It's always worth working on your query. Go to QLH if you haven't already.
It's also worth re-writing your book but it's important to figure out where you've done well and what needs fixing first or you're just pissing into the wind. Of the books out there I recommend On Writing and Writing the Breakout Novel.
57,000 words is awfully short for an adult novel, it's more of a novella (which is a hard class of book to sell). That could be a big part of your problem there. Also, if your writing technique in the novel is anything like your query you will run into trouble, many agents would be turned off by your style. First three sentences start with the same subject, "...has come..." is an odd way of phrasing it.
Also it sounds like a total Dan Brown re-hash from the query.
It's also worth re-writing your book but it's important to figure out where you've done well and what needs fixing first or you're just pissing into the wind. Of the books out there I recommend On Writing and Writing the Breakout Novel.
57,000 words is awfully short for an adult novel, it's more of a novella (which is a hard class of book to sell). That could be a big part of your problem there. Also, if your writing technique in the novel is anything like your query you will run into trouble, many agents would be turned off by your style. First three sentences start with the same subject, "...has come..." is an odd way of phrasing it.
Also it sounds like a total Dan Brown re-hash from the query.
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