Time for a new Query Corner! Where I take other people’s queries and help them tweak them until they’re agent-worthy!

“All Sophie wants is a best friend, but camp is hard for this weirdo.”

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Time for a new Query Corner! Where I take other people’s queries and help them tweak them until they’re agent-worthy!

Veteran Graham Sharris thought he knew the risks of guarding the monsters in the labs. His partner, recruit Soko, (don’t ask her her birth name) has already managed to earn Sharris’s guarded respect. But when one of the monsters escapes, the pair are dragged into an ancient war for the very soul of the multiverse.

Today, we’re discussing the struggle for finding a “good” set of comps.

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Time for a new Query Corner! Where I take other people’s queries and help them tweak them until they’re agent-worthy!

When 16yo Renee Ballard is rescued from demonic armadillos by ninja Jesuit priests, her first night studying abroad, she believes God is calling her to stop human trafficking. [Language and mature themes]

Today, we’re discussing if there’s a place for content warnings in query letters.

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Time for a new Query Corner! Where I take other people’s queries and help them tweak them until they’re agent-worthy!

In this Alice in Wonderland meets The Jungle Book, Alisha follows a talking tiger to a world run by a gigantic phoenix dragon — who wants to keep her as a pet.

See the finishing touches that get this query focused and ready for agents.

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When a sorcerer steals her father away, Emilia cobbles together a crew from her siblings to escape her home island and rescue her papá.

See the finishing touches that get this query focused and ready for agents.

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A little past season, but still a fun query. See how I helped revise this dark holiday legend.

THE WITCH IN THE ENVELOPE, is a dark twist on the legend of St. Nick, Nick and his Watchers aren’t here to leave toys — they’re here to keep Mara, the vengeful witch, from kidnapping children to fuel her magic.

Check out my latest query rewrite which takes a query from the hows of the writing to the stakes of the story.

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In BENTLEY ONE, a set of elementally-aligned college students set out to find what’s scaring off its ghosts.

Check out my latest query rewrite which takes a query from the hows of the writing to the stakes of the story.

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LIFE FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDE: FROM SOCCER MOM TO ADDICT AND HOME AGAIN is a memoir about a life torn apart, lost, then picking up the pieces.

ALL THE GOOD PEOPLE is a Women’s Fiction novel about several generations of women in a single family – unlucky-in-love and dealing with the consequences.

Lucy, whose husband’s brother helps her and her daughter during her husband’s hospitalization.

And her granddaughter, Annabelle, whose groom’s apathy shoves her into another man’s bed–on her wedding night.