How to Query Like a Boss, Part One

A guide to writing the dreaded query letter to agents, managers, producers, or directors.

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What is a query letter? Why are you writing one?

A query letter is a simple pitch from you to a potential buyer, collaborator, or champion of your project and you as a writer.

So, writing query letters is all about access. The goal of writing a query letter is to create a bridge between you/your project, and person or a company that you are interested in selling to or collaborating with.

You are going to send out a lot of these letters during your career. And, the end-goal for sending out multiple queries is to push your career and project forward.

But that’s not the goal of the actual document.

So, in the same way you have an objective in a scene, and a super objective for an entire script, the same thing is true here.