Over at Kristen Nelson’s blog. (She’s an agent, as you may know.)
I like statistics. And I’m familiar with the notion that most queries don’t get a “send me pages” request from an agent. But check this out:
32,000 queries in 2012, and
81 full manuscripts requested.
In case you’re curious, that is two tenths of one percent of the queries. Wow.
But then, if you’re sending out queries of your own? Or thinking about it? Whatever proportion of queries look like this are not your competition.
And if you’ve never seen it, you MUST go read the post “Slushkiller” by Teresa Nelson Hayden, which has got to be just about the best post ever written about slushpile queries.
And, if you ARE thinking of tackling a query letter? Then here’s a resource you may want to explore: a list that links to various successful query letters. And of course you’re familiar with Janet Reid’s Query Shark?
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