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VIA: Electronic Mail
Janet Reid
Fine Print Literary Management
240 West 35th Street #500
New York, NY 10001
Janet@fineprintlit.com
Re: Literary Representation
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It took up the entire email screen. It told me nothing I didn't know already, and a lot about the querier.
If you are querying by email you do NOT put the agent's address OR YOURS, at the top. E-queries do NOT follow the standard business letter format you learned in stenography 101.
A proper email query uses the subject line for the factual info: QUERY for (title of your book)/fiction or non-fiction
The first line of your email query is "Dear Snookums"
The next line of text is ABOUT YOUR
A lot of agents are reading queries on their smart phones, and every time an agent has to scroll down, you increase the chance they won't. You want to entice an agent to read on from the VERY FIRST WORD you write. Telling me you are "seeking literary representation" makes me wonder if you think I'm so stupid I need to be told this kind of thing. You think you're being proper and formal. You're not. You're wasting valuable time and real estate. Get to the point. Entice me to read your work.
Be smarter than your phone: learn and follow e-query formatting.
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