A while back I wrote a post about looking for agents (Quest for the Holy Sale: Finding Agents). It was a whimsical bit of nonsense with an undertone of importance. I’ve had a lot of conversations, emails, and questions come my way about agents and query letters since then. My response was, “Dudes and dudettes, didn’t my post indicate my level of uselessness?”
Understanding my deficiency, I’ve been gathering all the info I can obtain about the subject. During this period of self-study, I uncovered a couple free gems (these might only be free for Kindle users).
The two books are both by Noah Lukeman:
How to Write a Great Query Letter: Insider Tips and Techniques for Success
How to Land (and Keep) a Literary Agent
I was really excited to see these free books. I had read Lukeman’s book on punctuation (A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation) a few months back and really enjoyed the content. You know, eating my greens and all of that. In case you couldn’t picture what it looks like when I consume books, I added a picture.
Just wanted to take a minute to pass on these two awesome and free sources of information. I found the book on writing a great query letter to be extremely useful. Lukeman talks about what kind of paper to use (yeah, some people apparently write on cardboard to be clever), how to address the letter, how many paragraphs to write, how to structure those paragraphs, and more.
Good stuff!
Corey Truax 
Wonder what the book tastes like? Hmm, enquiring minds want to know!!
Great article by the way, can’t wait to see what you decide to do going forward!
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Tastes like Brazillian rain forest. Going forward? Don’t we have some books and short stories to co-author?
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Hear tell that Brazilian rain forest pairs nicely with a Merlo at sunset!
And why yes, yes we do have some more co-writing to do!!
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