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The Worst Query Letter

The Worst Query Letter

That I've Ever Seen

Kate McKean
Aug 22, 2019
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You might have seen on Twitter yesterday, a bunch of hullabaloo about a person who sent a Very Bad Query to about 300 agents this week. Yah. That many. And the email wasn’t BBC’d. I’m not going to link to it, because I think it was kinda bad form for someone to screenshot the query and post it on twitter, but that post was also linked on

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