I have written a non-fiction book. Now I need a literary agent. What about the query?

Question

I have read the Writers Market books, Guide to Literary Agents and searched through Preditors and Editors and AgentQuery. However, my concern is the query letter. I need to polish it up, those books help, but they don't tell me how to write a fabulous query letter. Being that I have never published a book before, my writing credits on the letter come out dry. What can I do to polish my letter or where can I find an excellent sample? Or a website with samples or good advice?

Answer 1

http://www.charlottedillon.com/query.html

This is a link to a site where there are many links to articles regarding query writing with many samples to look at. I think the majority of the samples are regarding romance novels, though. But you would still write it in the same structure.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

Answer 2

"The normal process of finding a literary agent is too daunting for me." Then I'd have to question whether your book is worth the paper you print it out on. How on earth have you done all this complicated analysis, if you can't even research agents? It does not work like this. Sorry.