Join us to go over six member queries, LIVE, in an interactive format designed to humanize this whole process.
Jessica & Julie reviewed each query with the author, covering a memoir about leaving a faith and a marriage, a 1600s historical novel with a love triangle and a Native American protagonist, a Snow White retelling where Snow White is the villain, a feminist western set in a brothel, an LGBTQ+ memoir about surviving conversion therapy in 1950s Miami, and a speculative political novel about running for Congress without money.
You’ll hear Jessica explain why leading with trauma instead of power makes a query feel heavier than the book probably is. You’ll hear Julie push writers to stop listing events and start making us feel something. And you’ll hear both of them work through what a query is actually for–which is getting someone to want to read the book, not summarizing it.
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About the Instructor
Jessica Sinsheimer
Jessica Sinsheimer has been reading and campaigning for her favorite queries since 2004. Now an agent at the Context Literary Agency, she is always on the lookout for new writers, and–whatever the age group–she tends to love contrast: highbrow sentences and lowbrow content, beautiful settings and ugly motives–the books that are beautiful and scary, heartbreaking and hilarious. She loves secrets, scheming, revenge, plotting–and stories that have to be written forward and backward to make sense (SHE LOVES discovering a very cleverly planted clue that makes sense in retrospect). She’d love more of what she thinks of as “Rom Com 2.0” works–powerful, nerdy women with humor and heart. More underrepresented characters, please–especially those with power, agency, and happy endings.