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A query letter is your introduction to an agent or an editor. There are general rules of thumb to follow, but you also want your letter to stand out and get noticed. Whether you're new to crafting this all-important letter, or you're looking to refine a query letter you've already written, you'll come away from this class with insights and inspiration that will help you put your best foot forward.
Choose webinar above to attend, listen to the discussion, ask questions and learn. Or choose clinic to submit your query letter for review.
This Clinic Will Cover:
- What a query letter is and who it's for
- The key ingredients
- How to stand out
- Feedback on your query letter (Clinic registrants only)
- Live Q&A
Since 2015, Lori has built a standout list at Aevitas Creative Management, representing bestselling, critically acclaimed storytellers whose work has been widely covered in national media, translated internationally, and optioned for film and television.
Drawing on decades of publishing experience—including her years as an editor at Houghton Mifflin and America’s Test Kitchen—she represents authors such as Wanda M. Morris, Nishita Parekh, and James Beard Award–winning chef Kwame Onwuachi. Her clients’ work has been recognized by the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Good Morning America Book Club, NAACP Image Awards, NPR’s Books We Love, The New York Times Best Mysteries of the Year, and the Crime Writers’ Association’s Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, among others.
Lori specializes in upmarket fiction with propulsive storylines—book club, mystery, suspense, and psychologically layered narratives—and selectively represents cookbooks and literary memoir. Forthcoming projects INTRUSIVE INTENTIONS/Sebastian Plata (Severn House), UNTAMED COAST/Kevin C. Morris (Ballantine); THE SINS OF GOOD PEOPLE/Kelly Young Chang (AKA STORY/ABRAMS); THIS NEVER HAPPENS HERE/Wanda M. Morris (Dutton).
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