Get Your Novel Published: Write an Irresistible Query Letter

What You Will Learn?

• If you're ready to submit your novel and land a literary agent, but feel stumped or unsure about query letters, this is the class for you..
• Blair Thornburgh is a multi-published author with HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Abrams Books and a former Senior Editor of NYT and international bestsellers at Quirk Books. This class will teach you to write the kind of irresistible query letter by getting to the heart of your story, characters, and marketability—all in a few short paragraphs. .
• Query letters—the letters that describe your novel, brag your bio, and hook an agent—can be intimidating. It’s easy to agonize over draft after draft and still not know if you’re nailing the form. But for writers who are serious about traditional publication, getting that query pitch-perfect is essential. A flabby query can lead to form rejections, submission limbo, and endless waiting..
• Fortunately, they’re easy to learn! Join professional editor and multi-published author Blair Thornburgh (that’s me!) for a nuts-and-bolts class that will kick your query letter into overdrive with clear explanations, specific examples, and guided drafting to make your query letter irresistible..
• Blair's critically-acclaimed books have received multiple starred reviews and appeared on Best of the Year lists from Publishers Weekly, the American Library Association, and Bank Street Children's Books. As a Senior Editor at Quirk Books, she was named one of Publishers Weekly’s Rising Stars for 2017. She received her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University, and also hosts The Query Show, a podcast all about—you guessed it—query letters..
• Course highlights:.
• Testimonials.
• I received 11 requests and an offer of rep last week! Thanks for your edits and being a part of the querying process. I appreciate it so much.—Brian Z., YA Author.
• Working with Blair was great all around. She suggested various ways in which I could improve my query letter, several of which had not occurred to me over several rounds of looking it over on my own.—Allie F., Fantasy Author .