If you have read my How I Didn’t Get an Agent post, you will know that I got my offer through a twitter pitch event. That might be more helpful than my query letter but here is what I sent to Lake Country Press.

On August 22nd, 2022, six days before my 34th birthday, I was sitting in a work meeting as we were wrapping things up. No harm in taking a peek at my phone and see what email came through. I have two email accounts, one strictly for author things, mainly queries at the time and my personal email. This was through my author account. I remember looking down and sighing. Might as well get this over with. My first rejection on a full because 75 queries later, I was not in a hopeful place.

Although LCP raved about the book, made some suggestions for dev edits and a suggested title change, I didn’t know I was reading an offer until I saw the words. I had to somehow maintain my composure in a work meeting. The rejection would have been easier to hide, to be honest.