Comments on: Query Writing 101

By: C.J. Redwine

C.J. Redwine — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:06:33 +0000

Thanks for visiting, Jane. I hope you found it helpful.

By: Jane Lange

Jane Lange — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:15:25 +0000

CJ, This is my first visit to the site. I appreciate your advise on the dreaded query letters. Thank you, I look forward to the blog forums in the future!

By: Tereasa Bellew

Tereasa Bellew — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:49:29 +0000

Internal and external, fantastic! And the part about highlighting the names, too. I’m never sure and wondered how to decide if a character is important enough to be highlighted or not.

By: Jessi Bacon

Jessi Bacon — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:21:12 +0000

This was a great critique. I’m glad you said that characters’ names didn’t need to be highlighted, b/c I’ve heard it both ways. I love reading query examples, b/c the thought of writing one scares the bejeebers out of me!

By: Adrienne Giordano

Adrienne Giordano — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:53:07 +0000

Great critique C.J. The questions you asked really help to focus on what the internal and external conflicts are.

By: TraceyDevlyn

TraceyDevlyn — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:04:24 +0000

Thanks Tereasa and CJ!

It’s nice to get feedback you can sink your teeth into, isn’t it? The “not knowing” where to go is what seems to paralyze so many writers. I know it does me.

Thanks, Tracey

By: C.J. Redwine

C.J. Redwine — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:07:49 +0000

I’m glad you found the feedback helpful. Good luck!

By: carrie

carrie — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:58:09 +0000

Great critique C.J……that gives us all sorts of things to look for in our own queries!

carrie

By: Donna Cummings

Donna Cummings — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:46:15 +0000

This sounds like a great story — when I read the sentence about the daughter writing letters, I was shouting, “Oh no!”. I’m sure you’ll get lots of requests for this one.

The only thing I wanted to point out was I don’t think “Romance Writers of America” has an apostrophe in it — it’s one of those things agents/editors will expect us writers to get “right”.

CJ — the critique was excellent, and so informative. It gave me some ideas so I can go over my query (once again!). Thanks for your generosity!

By: Tereasa Bellew

Tereasa Bellew — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:55:55 +0000

Hi CJ,
I am so excitied to get this critique. I agree with Kelsey, query letters are hard to write! Your comments are very helpful, pointing me in the direction I need to go. I’m always worried it will run to long, but I can definitely see the need to answer certain questions in the query. I will be working on this after work today!
Thank you so much!
Tereasa