Query letter anatomy

Query letter anatomy video template

A one-page query letter on a dark desk with its five parts highlighted one by one and labelled in the margin: hook, book, comps, bio and sign-off, plus a word-count sweet-spot meter. Paste in your own letter and keep the labels.

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ONE PAGE · FIVE JOBS
anatomy of a query letter
Dear Ms. Okafor,
When a tide-clock repairer finds a letter addressed to a drowned village, she has nine days to deliver it.
THE SALT ALMANAC is an 86,000-word literary fantasy about grief, weather and two very stubborn sisters.
It will suit readers of The Lantern Tax and Nine Bells for Marrow Street.
I repair clocks in a harbour town of 900 people. This is my first novel.
Thank you for your time, Nell Abara
THE HOOK
one sentence. who, what, clock.
THE BOOK
title, word count + genre. that’s it.
COMPS
two recent books. not the classics.

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