What the Hell is a Query Letter?
A former Literary Intern breaks it down.
4 min readApr 28, 2018
I’ve read a lot of query letters in my time. During the year and a half that I read queries as intern to a literary agent, I’ve seen pretty much every mistake that a writer can make when submitting to an agent.
Some mistakes are simple and banal:
- queries that are long enough to be a…