You’ve heard you need a query letter when submitting your picture book, but what is a query letter exactly? What should it include? What should be left out?
Emma and Julie share the basics of what to include in your query letter to agents or editors, including:
- The purpose of the query letter
- All about salutations
- What to include in your introductory paragraph
- How to craft your pitch paragraph
- Narrative Pitch formula and examples
- Basics of the Comp Title Paragraph
- What to include (and not to include) in your bio paragraph
- Concluding your query letters
Books mentioned in this episode:
- After The Fall by Dan Santat
- Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- I Don’t Want To Be a Frog by Dev Petty and Mike Boldt
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