Drum roll please ....

The second draft of the novel was finished on schedule and has just been through the hands of a trusted reader. The 3rd, and hopefully final, draft will be finished by this weekend.

What comes next? The dreaded query letter. How am I supposed to craft a beautiful query that summarizes my story's plot and gives a little information about me in a short, three paragraph query letter?

Must do some research on the topic. I would like to have a letter completed and ready to mail by Sunday night (2/7/10). I've already picked out the first agent that I plan to query.

Yikes!

A really good article about query letters can be found here: Agent Query