Nathan Bransford - The Forums

I would like to add that I respectfully disagree with the above poster that your story may be flawed. It may be, for all I know, but I don't think that can be told from just a query. Maybe the query just doesn't explain everything well enough to tell us all we want to know. Good luck. I like your p...

Cold-calling agents is a really bad idea. They'll probably be polite when you speak to them, but this will not get your submission a more favorable hearing. However, when you are marketing yourself, you have to be attentive to the culture of the industry. Agents receive thousands of unsolicited subm...

I think you might want to find a couple of careful beta readers to look your MS over before you start querying agents, because you may have a few story problems. You've got a whole lot of stuff going on here, and the query letter doesn't really create an impression that you've synthesized it into a ...