How to Write a Query?
Most writers struggle with this question.
How to write a query? What is the format?
Example of a Query Letter
Dear Ms. Kola,
[1] According to your agency’s website you’re actively seeking middle-grade fiction, so I’m pleased to introduce my novel, A
Smidgen of Sky.
[2] This novel won me a scholarship to attend the Highlights Foundation Writers Workshop at Chautauqua. It was also
awarded honorable mention in the Smart Writers W.I.N. Competition.
[3] A Smidgen of Sky is the story of ten-year-old Piper Lee De Luna, a spunky, impulsive dreamer, whose fierce devotion to
her missing father is threatened by her mother’s upcoming remarriage.
[4] Everyone else has long accepted her father’s death, but the fact that his body was never recovered from his wrecked plane
leads to Piper’s dream that he might one day reappear and free her from the secret guilt she harbors over his accident. Her
stubborn focus leaves no room in her affections for her mother’s fiancé, Ben, or his princess-like daughter, Ginger.
[5] Determined to stop the wedding, Piper Lee schemes up “Operation Finding Tina”—a sure plan to locate Ben’s ex-wife and
get the two of them back together. But just as Piper succeeds with step one of her plan, a riot breaks out at the prison where
Ben works, and suddenly nothing seems sure.
[6] Since middl