After writing my query letter, tearing it to pieces, writing again and going through the process countless times, this morning I was ready to query 10 agents that I had researched. For the first two I sent a query letter only. The formatting was fine. For the third agent, I sent a query letter and the first 5 pages. That's where I ran into problems.
The letter itself was formatted fine, but the first five pages were a mess. I changed my email over to plain text, replaced all the odd formatting in Word (straight quotes, paragraph breaks, etc) and everything looked good when I hit "submit." I just viewed my sent messages, and the sample pages look like this:
I
clearly don't know how to format
my query. Hopefully this isn't too
distracting.
It
probably is, so you likely won't
read this.
Why would that happen? I'm frustrated at myself for not sending a test message to my other email account first. I pretty much blew it with that agent from the get-go.
The letter itself was formatted fine, but the first five pages were a mess. I changed my email over to plain text, replaced all the odd formatting in Word (straight quotes, paragraph breaks, etc) and everything looked good when I hit "submit." I just viewed my sent messages, and the sample pages look like this:
I
clearly don't know how to format
my query. Hopefully this isn't too
distracting.
It
probably is, so you likely won't
read this.
Why would that happen? I'm frustrated at myself for not sending a test message to my other email account first. I pretty much blew it with that agent from the get-go.
