Elana is something of a query letter ninja, and she has even published a book all about it. In a recent post on her blog, Elana discusses basically why you need to write your cover copy (that chunk of print you read on the back of a book to see if it's any good) as your query letter. Elana did, and her query letter ended up as her cover copy! Here's a snippet of what she had to say:
"every single word in the query letter is crucial. You never know which ones are going to make it all the way through to the book. "
Elana's point is that your query must be beyond awesome, or BEAWESOME! Go check out the entire post, you won't want to miss it.
-EJW-
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Was there a link to her post? If so, I missed it.
ReplyDeleteHere's a linky.
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E.J. I remember that one. It was a good one. I think we might all do better to think of queries as cover copy.