Query letter editor

The last posts introduced the elements of a query letter: the manuscript summary, the metadata, and the author biography. 

So what’s an author biography?

Agents reading your query letter want to know about your writing credentials. They want to know if:

• You have relevant educational experience

• You’ve written before 

• You’ve done anything that has helped validate you as a potential career author. 

This isn’t publishing a book (in fact, most agents aren’t looking to represent books that have already been self published--see our blog post on this), but instead could be: 

• Having a book blog

• Having a writing-focused twitter account 

• Having won an essay contest

• Having written for the school or local newspaper

• Having published an academic article

• Etc. 

Anything that shows that you take writing seriously and have worked to advance your craft is also great to mention. Hav Sample query letter novel.