Writer's Digest and others recommend we authors include a blurb in the query letter stating our reasons for asking this particular agent to consider this particular novel for representation.
EXAMPLE #1 - "Dear Ms. Cornish: As you no doubt remember, we met at the Council of Arts "Poetry and Peanut Butter Symposium" last August..."
EXAMPLE #2 - "Dear Mr. Algernon: My new book, "Where's the Damn Jelly", matches up neatly when compared to the fourth and fifth books in the "Juvenile Court Romance" series..."
How should we phrase our criteria for petitioning an agent we selected on the basis of the first few letters of their last name?
EXAMPLE #1 -
"Dear Ms. Cornish:
As you no doubt remember, we met at the Council of Arts "Poetry and Peanut Butter Symposium" last August..."
EXAMPLE #2 -
"Dear Mr. Algernon:
My new book, "Where's the Damn Jelly", matches up neatly when compared to the fourth and fifth books in the "Juvenile Court Romance" series..."
How should we phrase our criteria for petitioning an agent we selected on the basis of the first few letters of their last name?
Jon