The Query Critique Week is Back!

Remember last year's query critique week? Well, it's back...I'll be critiquing query letters on my blog next week. I've written hundreds of queries, and edited hundreds of others for freelancers, and I know what works.

Want personalized feedback on one of your pitches? Here's how to play:

1. Send your nonfiction query to kelly at becomebodywise.com by Monday, April 18, 2011. Make sure you put "Query Critique Week" in the subject line.

2. Cross your fingers and hope that your query gets picked to be critiqued here on my blog. (I'll only be able to choose a few.)

3. Tune in next week!

That's it! For a look at the queries from last year's query critique week and my feedback on them, check out these posts:

Fitness pitch

Swiss chard pitch

Street harassment pitch

Memoir pitch

Declutter pitch

By the way, if you wrote one of these queries last year, please let me know what happened with it!

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