What do you do with a query letter that has been written fifty times, give or take ten or fifteen? Toss it? Keep it?
I think my error came in keeping each version… now when I debate on which query I need to work on, I have too many to choose from!
So, I did what any other insane writer would do, I opened number fifty-one and started again.
I have been reading Query Shark and realize what to do and what NOT to do…but execution is always the hard part… because every book is different. There is no cookie cutter way to write the query.
If I learned one thing from the pitchfest, it was that I wasn’t doing my novel justice with the pitch I used (tho in my defense it was only 100 words) which means I need to edit the one I sent in to ABNA too, cuzz it was the same one. And I will do that..
On to the query I go… I will remind you that I have the goal of sending 20 out by March… and technically I have sent one… but it really wasn’t sending one… it was the pitchfest. But I am counting it because someone saw my work… Ha! 
Okay, enough dilly-dallying…
Have you thought about signing up for CJ Redwine's Query Workshop?
Good luck with the query process!
I have actually, but I think I am further in the process then I need to pay for. I think it's all in my head right now ;) I just have to get the guts and say, it's good! It's GOOD! And send it off...
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Gee, I'm so glad my editing is going along at a snail's pace, querying does not sound like much fun at all! :) It will be worth all the work in the end!
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