Query Letter

Dear Mr. Quintero:

I am querying you because I read on your website that you represent quality fiction. Set in Queens, my adult contemporary thriller, QUANTUM PHYSICS, is a mix of Tomie dePaola’s The Quicksand Book, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, and Don Quixote if it took place in the city, except without the horse, the stealing, and the traveling all over the place parts. It is complete at 90,000 words—an adequate quantity by most standards.

Quick-thinking Qaletaqa moves to Queens, New York from Queen Creek, Arizona with a stolen desert quail named Sandy to take a job as a funeral director. What he doesn’t realize is that the funeral home is a front for an underground Quaalude manufacturing facility. Qaletaqa and Sandy go undercover to expose the secret operation, narrowly avoiding a cock-fighting episode, falling in love, and almost dying in the end.

I am quite the catch as far as writers go. I have no biography to speak of—although I do lifeguard at the local quarry and I recently quit smoking. I know I have queried you three times before, and you quietly passed the first time (then accidently blocked my email address). But this time I know you are going to have no qualms about representing me.

My friend, Joe, said—and I quote—“QUANTUM PHYSICS is good.” If you would like the full manuscript, please let me know before the quarter hour. By the way, I sent this to you in quadruplicate in case you lose a copy.

Sincerely,

Me