Your query letter—or your jacket copy—KNOWS. It knows if you’ve got a whole story in there, if there’s an arc of change, if there are stakes, if there’s a why now and a why this and a why her/him.

You just have to be willing to listen. Julie Artz, query coach extraordinaire, and KJ talk about mistakes writers make in our queries—and more importantly, the problems queries can reveal about our stories.

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Links from the Pod

Podcast: The S**t No One Tells You About Writing

Blog: Jet Reid’s The Query Shark

Podcast: Queries Qualms and Quirks

Previous episodes:

Ep 343: Friends Don’t Let Friends Write Books Without Hooks

Summer Blueprint Step 4: Your Jacket Copy is Your Promise to the Reader

#AmReading

Julie: The Book of Delights, Ross Gay

Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver

KJ: Inciting Joy, Ross Gay

“You Just Need to Lose Weight” and 19 Other Myths about Fat People, Aubrey Gordon

(also mentioned— Maintenance Phase Podcast)

Julie Artz @julieartz on twitter and Instagram

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