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WHAT AGENTS DISLIKE FINDING ON QUERY LETTERS

1. Personal information

2. Authors focusing too much on their bios rather than what their books are about.

3. "Dear Editor," "Dear Agent," or "Dear Publisher,"

4. Spelling Errors and grammatical errors

5. Unfocused queries

6. The term "Fiction Novel"

7. Vagueness

8. Authors not taking their queries seriously.

9. Authors lieing in their queries.

10. When told by the author that their work is the best, the greatest, the most amazing.

11. Dull chapter summaries!