by SCBWI Western Washington
South Sounders, don't send out your query until you know it is ready. How about meeting up with some peers to workshop and make those queries shine? Mark your calendars for the next meeting! Query Submission: May 2, 2017 How do you put your best foot forward? What parts about your story do you include and what parts aren't... Continue Reading →
Join the fray! As of January 1, WRITE IN THE MARGINS features a contest for stories featuring characters with historically underrepresented backgrounds. To see the full scoop, click here. Ten finalists will be chosen for agent feedback and the whole shebang, so enter! Good luck, all!
Queries About Queries So you're all ready (fingers crossed) to send out that polished manuscript. Who do you send it to? One at a time? Mass mailings? And what's all this about a query letter? What's the difference between that and a cover letter? Come find out at our January meeting! Date: Wednesday, January 6,... Continue Reading →
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Have you ever wondered about query letters? What are they? How do you write a dynamic query letter that will catch the eye and pique the interest of an editor or agent? Join us on Wednesday, November 6 for the... Continue Reading →
Fellow SCBWI WWA member Dorine White is giving us a chance for an early holiday present! Her blog, The Write Path, is having a query contest. Editor Stan Trembley, from Variance Publishing, has agreed to pick his favorite query and give them a 5 page manuscript critique! Second place will get a critique of their... Continue Reading →
This was our first conference with a first pages session dedicated to query critiques, and Joe and Martha had similar comments throughout the session. Only a few of the queries elicited enough interested from either of them to say they'd be curious to see a few pages of the manuscript in spite of the faults... Continue Reading →
The Chinook is looking for tips about writing query letters. Can you help? How many query letters have you written in your writing career? What helpful tips have you learned from those that were successful and those that weren’t so successful? Would you contribute those tips to an article in an upcoming issue of the... Continue Reading →
If you're thinking about querying an agent, here's some advice worth reading:“My story is about a man, a woman, and two dogs. It’s a modern-day retelling of Pride & Prejudice, except the characters of Jane and Mr. Bingley are a tad hairier than in the original.” Confession time. That is an honest-to-God excerpt from the... Continue Reading →
The literary agent Janet Reid has compiled a handy chart. Here's the start of it:....................................................Fiction..........Memoir........Non-fictionquery letter ....................................yes,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,yes.............. yeswebsite* ........................................yes,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,yes..............yesdedicated query/author email,,,,,,,yes............ ,,,yes.......... ....yesword count.....................................yes,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,yes.............. noCheck out the rest.
Agent Kristin Nelson is annotating more queries and opening pages on her blog. If you're thinking of querying, do check these out.Here's what intrigued Kristin: I have to say that Megan’s query immediately caught my attention as she had a whole different take on utilizing ghosts that I’ve never seen before. Besides, I like complex... Continue Reading →
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