WRITING A BLURB FOR A QUERY LETTER

One way of writing a blurb for your query letter is to use WH Questions.

·         Who is the story about?
·         What is the story about?
·         Where is the setting or location of the story?
·         When does the story take place?
·         Why= the characters plot motive.

The following example may help you to write one of your own.

Hitting him with a nine iron wasn’t very sporting, but when someone is trying to disembowel you changing golf clubs is the last thing on your mind.

Lady C is in a bit of a bind. Her father has just passed away at his London Club after an encounter with an officer of the Grenadier Guards dressed as a French maid and some wet lettuce. And to make matters worse, the terms of her late father’s will state she will only inherit her share of the family fortune if she marries before she is thirty. And, alas, she’s already 29.

With time running out she’s forced into taking desperate measures with unforeseen consequences. The love potion she had concocted for Lord Dickie Everhard results in him running off to Florence with her cousin Gerald, and an ill-advised trip to Whitechapel leaves the prime suspect in the Jack the Ripper investigation dead on the pavement.

It’s time for a serious rethink, and unless Lady C can come up with a better plan, she might be swapping her Mayfair Townhouse for the Workhouse.

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