While trying to figure out the right thing to do, it is often important to know the things definitely NOT to do. A lot of this advice sounds like common sense, sure, but common sense isn't as common as we would like it to be a lot of the time. The lists below display the things that agents/publishers definitely DO NOT want to see, with a few things they actually would like to see sprinkled in.
Query Letters:
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