Your query letter—or your jacket copy—KNOWS. It knows if you’ve got a whole story in there, if there’s an arc of change, if there are stakes, if there’s a why now and a why this and a why her/him.
You just have to be willing to listen. Julie Artz, query coach extraordinaire, and KJ talk about mistakes writers make in our queries—and more importantly, the problems queries can reveal about our stories.
DOWNLOAD JULIE’s 5 STEP QUERY LETTER AUDIT!
Links from the Pod
Podcast: The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
Blog: Jet Reid’s The Query Shark
Podcast: Queries Qualms and Quirks
Previous episodes:
Ep 343: Friends Don’t Let Friends Write Books Without Hooks
Summer Blueprint Step 4: Your Jacket Copy is Your Promise to the Reader
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Julie: The Book of Delights, Ross Gay
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
KJ: Inciting Joy, Ross Gay
“You Just Need to Lose Weight” and 19 Other Myths about Fat People, Aubrey Gordon
(also mentioned— Maintenance Phase Podcast)
Julie Artz @julieartz on twitter and Instagram
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