Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Query Letters: My first try

This is the Query Letter I sent out to 19 agents in the USA a week and a half ago:

Dear [agent's name],

I am an avid reader of your blog - Pub Rants - and I really appreciate the example query letters you post there in particular. I have noticed that several of the successful queries were in the fantasy or romance genres and I was hoping you would consider my book, the Silver Hawk. It is a story about a 'god' who must learn to love, and a girl who is much more than she seems and is an upper young adult Scifi/Fantasy novel, complete at 83,500 words. The synopsis is as follows:

A thousand years is a long time to be cataloguing souls, especially when they have the same stories to tell, over and over again. Unlike his twin sister Maat, Mikael has never found it difficult to keep an emotional distance from the human population they are studying, but with the birth of the blind princess, Juliana, Mikael finds himself unable to look away and, unexpectedly, beginning to care.

Juliana is unique, isolated, and considered cursed by her own people. When her grandmother dies, she is on the verge of absolute power and more than a few people would rather have a civil war than a cursed monarch. Mikael watches as she struggles to earn respect, support and love, all the while, knowing her darkest secret – the soul she carries is not human. His genetic experiments altered her bloodline generations back and now it is his responsibility to find out who, or what, is hiding inside her. The truth, he finds, is more than he could have ever hoped or feared…

In the end, Mikael saves Juli’s life, breaking the most fundamental rule of his profession: never interfere with death. The consequences could be catastrophic, both for his career and the planet's entire human population...

The Silver Hawk is the first novel in a projected trilogy and I am currently 10,000 words into the second instalment. I also have many other stand alone story ideas with the same characters. Thank you very much for your time and consideration. Please contact me if you would like to view the whole manuscript.

Regards,
Beaulah Pragg

I got two requests for more pages and i am still waiting for the responses to those.

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