How to write a query letter

Agent Jill Corcoran has posted a complete list of what an agent (and probably an editor) wants to see in a query letter.  Click on over to see.

Her blog is chock full of great help for writers.

One of her  more recent blog posts is all about how to write first chapter books -- you know, like Clementine, Mercy Watson, Marty McGuire, Captain Underpants, etc.  Those step-up books longer than easy readers but shorter than middle readers.

Edited and added:
Yet another post about writing a query letter, this time from Jane Friedman.

Blog -- Agent Jill Corcoran

Several agents have blogs where they give advice to writers about the tricky parts of the business of being published as well as talk about her writers, their books, and their sales. Among them is Jill Corcoran of the Herman Agency.

It looks as if she is only blogging once a month these days, but there's lots of good information in her older posts if you want to take a look and learn. Plus lots of links to other good blogs.

Just click.