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  I’m always asked how to write a query letter to a potential agent or publisher. It’s simple, It’s a letter that checks all the boxes and is especially unique to your manuscript and to the genre to which the agent or publisher specializes. Don’t send a query letter to an agent or publisher that doesn’t specialize in your genre. For example, if you’re writing a mystery novel that is filled with blood guts and gore don’t send your query letter to an agent or publisher that specializes in romance or sci-fi stories, your letter will never be read. Start your letter off with a quick paragraph that introduces you, and your work to the person the letter is addressed to. For example, start the letter off with this line: I’m writing to you in the hopes of obtaining representation for “The Name of your work”, a 90,000-word adult mystery novel that is the first in a future series called “Blank Series”.  Include your hook line in this paragraph. Then in the next paragraph, describe the m...