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What makes for a successful query letter? 💌
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What makes for a successful query letter? 💌

Today's guest is senior literary agent Adria Goetz.

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Alyssa Matesic
Dec 22, 2022
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Figuring out what a literary agent wants can feel like trying to solve an impossible riddle.

It can feel frustrating to receive rejections that don’t help you understand why a literary agent didn’t want to look further into your project, especially after you put so much time and effort into constructing your query package.

Sometimes tweaking your pitch c…

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