Fake Query Letters by Dead Authors

Don't make agents cry for all the wrong reasons

Fake Query Letters by Dead Authors offers new strategies to ditch the heartache, headaches, and frustration of querying. We step into an agent's shoes to review five fake query letters and synopses of classic novels, along with their (not fake) opening pages, and then discuss strategies for finding an agent and/or publisher.

Join us in the Fake Deads universe for some hilariously awful submissions and find joy in the process of querying.

Which dead authors??

Jane Austen—Pride and Prejudice
Emily Brontë—Wuthering Heights
Nathaniel Hawthorne—The Scarlet Letter
Lucy Maud Montgomery—Anne of Green Gables
Charlotte Brontë—Jane Eyre

The thought experiment is this: what if these authors were alive today and pitching their masterpieces to agents and publishers? How might they conceptualize their hook? How might they foul up their query letter? How might their first pages land in the battleground that is today's publishing industry?

We'll dissect the flops and offer revisions. Then we'll get into the top tips that have come out of the 100+ agent interviews we've done for the Book Broker series.