Let's rewind a little and focus on the very first words in your query letter. In this post, I'll talk about how best to address a literary agent in a query letter, and things to avoid doing.

It's time for Tip Number 2 in my Querying Tips Series. This time, I'm talking about the query letter itself. In this post, my advice is: keep your query letter short.

I want to offer a series of useful tips for any writers heading into the querying process based on things I've seen in the submissions I've received. My first tip in this series is: Follow submission guidelines.