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Dear Miss Snark,
I have a manuscript I am about to query, and I have been researching agents. One of my dream agents doesn't appear to represent my genre (historical fiction), but she, I discovered, represents three authors, who write in very different genres, and whose work I happen to admire very much. Should I not even bother with the query or should I try it, assuming it likely won't work, but tell her I'm querying her because of authors X, Y, and Z?
Yes.
Query widely.
The worst that can happen is you hear no and spend two stamps.
Besides, I always read query letters from people who like my authors.
I know you dislike getting query letters on lawyer or hospital letterhead - how do you feel about getting queries on an author's personal letterhead? Does it ever seem pretentious to you? Or
does it depend on whether the author is already published?
Turk Pipkin (great name isn't it!) is a writer with a great business card:
Turk Pipkin
Words and Deeds
I thought that was cool.
Unless you've got something truly stellar, leave it off.
If you've been published the place to mention that happy fact is in the letter itself.
At the query letter stage I only want to know your name, address, phone, and email. I don't want to know you're a writing consultant. I don't want to know you're an editor. I want to know how to reach you in case it turns out you really ARE a writer and not just an assembly line word organizer in the Factory of Novels.
