Nathan Bransford has a post on breaking the rules for writing a query letter. He spots three areas that editors or agents judge a query by, if you nail one of them you’re in. You can break a rule or two if your book idea is awesome or if you are a celebrity. The judge of the awesomeness of your book idea is not you, however!
Basically the post is completely unhelpful because it more or less says the query letter is irrelevant! But still fun to think about how a guy can manipulate a book publisher into publishing his crappy book because he wrote his query letter with the shed blood of an iguana.
July 24, 2008 at 9:28 am
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