Query Letters That Worked

These query letters worked!

Below are links to the actual query letter that won the author an agent. Some letters have thoughts from the author about how the letter is written. Other letters have feedback from the agent on why the letter worked. And some have input from both the agent and author.

Each listing indicates the author’s name, the women’s fiction subgenre (i.e., historical, paranormal), and the agency representation.

Access to these links is available to RWA-WF members only.

Tracy Brogan (Contemporary Women’s Fiction) Book Cents Literary Agency

Keith Cronin (Commercial Fiction) Rusoff Agency 

Michelle Diener (Historical Fiction) Represented by Stringer Literary

Shelley Freydont (Women’s Fiction) Represented by Marsal Lyon Literary Agency

Kristina McMorris (Historical Fiction) Represented by Spencerhill Associates

Sharla Scroggs (Paranormal Fiction) Represented by BookEnds,LLC – A Literary Agency

Lorrie Thomson (Women’s Fiction) Represented by BookEnds, LLC – A Literary Agency

Therese Walsh (Commercial Fiction) Represented by Weed Literary

Michelle Diener writes historical novels for Gallery Books. Her debut novel, IN A TREACHEROUS COURT, due out on August 2nd, 2011, is set in the court of Henry VIII. It features the real historical figures of illuminator and painter, Susanna Horenbout, and Henry's Keeper of the Palace of Westminster and Yeoman of the King's Robes, John Parker. The second book in this series, KEEPER OF THE KING'S SECRETS, is set for an early 2012 release.

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