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How many things are wrong with this query letter? Let us count the ways.

by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog, Publishing

This query arrived in my inbox this morning. It is possibly a joke, but experience tells me it is not. I have pasted it verbatim. How many things about it can you count that would irritate a prospective literary agent? (Not including the fact that the author attached...
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