Query Guru: The truth about querying

(YA Dystopian Query + First Page)

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And now, without further ado, welcome to another Query Guru post! Today we’ll look at both the query letter and the first page of a YA dystopian novel.

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Todays submission is a great example of an unfortunate truth in querying. I’ll explain what I mean, but first, let’s read the query.