Post by organizedbygrace on Aug 3, 2011 21:29:54 GMT -5
Hi all and thanks to tango for the invite. I popped in a few weeks ago to introduce myself, then life happened to get in the way as it sometimes does. I hope it's ok that I'am posting. I've been working on this query letter for awhile now and was going to send it on. Then thinking everything I've read learning this writing business is to let your writing group help out. Then I thought you don't know me or anything about my writings and then again maybe that's not so bad at the moment as you would be reading just as if sent to an agent. With that said I look forward to being critiqued.
P.S.
I'm not sure if the word "hurt" in the title should be capitalized
I've read both for and against the first sentence of each paragraph being indented.
The last paragraph and line spills over to page 2.
Word count is 549
I tend to write in a narrative style between first and third person which I'm trying to correct.
I am seeking Christian representation. While studying Christian Writers Guide, I found it interesting your agency is located in Bonita Springs, and I reside up the road in Lehigh Acres, Fl. Plus the fact you are open to unpublished authors and handle inspirational nonfiction.
Turning fifty and vowing to make the second half of my life better than the first half, life had become such a struggle and trying to move forward wasn’t working. Life Without Purpose, hurts, is empowering and inspirational to all women ages 35 to 65 who settled for less than deserved and find themselves on a path that was never meant for them to follow. To say there are many hurting women out there is such an understatement. It is noted 70 – 80% of Christian consumers are female (Covington).
Just knowing there has to be a better life, to crying out “God, if this is all life is, I don’t want it.” Was it something I remembered hearing, maybe some seed planted decades ago during Catechism class of my childhood? Somehow knowing God was the answer, but I had long ago turned away from God, surely after all these years there was no way for me to get back on God’s plan for me.
Thoughts of God kept coming to the forefront, could it be a seed trying to sprout up from the cluttered, muddled fog my thoughts had become. The miraculous way God gets her attention and the numerous God moments that follow to change the course of her life and continue on today to do so.
[What, what would have become of me] had I not believed that I would see the Lord's goodness in the land of the living! Psalm 27:13-14 AMP (NIV)
The story above is my journey from brokenness to wholeness, from nothing to having hope, a future and embracing the life God meant for me. My past does not define me, it is my uniqueness that does.
The working title: Life Without Purpose, hurts, is at 40,000 plus word unfinished non-fiction manuscript. The story is timely in that it touches on what many have experienced in recent years, unemployment to starting a business, closing the business, getting into debt. Leaving the state to find work to keep from losing the house, returning home, unemployment ending. The aftermath of our present economy that many common folks have had to endure; filing bankruptcy, house being foreclosed. At age fifty-six attending college for the very first time thanks to Presidents Obama’s 2009 stimulus package to put dislocated workers back to work. I will graduate with Honors Dec. 2011 with an AA degree in Criminal Justice.
Thank you for your time and consideration, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
P.S.
I'm not sure if the word "hurt" in the title should be capitalized
I've read both for and against the first sentence of each paragraph being indented.
The last paragraph and line spills over to page 2.
Word count is 549
I tend to write in a narrative style between first and third person which I'm trying to correct.
I am seeking Christian representation. While studying Christian Writers Guide, I found it interesting your agency is located in Bonita Springs, and I reside up the road in Lehigh Acres, Fl. Plus the fact you are open to unpublished authors and handle inspirational nonfiction.
Turning fifty and vowing to make the second half of my life better than the first half, life had become such a struggle and trying to move forward wasn’t working. Life Without Purpose, hurts, is empowering and inspirational to all women ages 35 to 65 who settled for less than deserved and find themselves on a path that was never meant for them to follow. To say there are many hurting women out there is such an understatement. It is noted 70 – 80% of Christian consumers are female (Covington).
Just knowing there has to be a better life, to crying out “God, if this is all life is, I don’t want it.” Was it something I remembered hearing, maybe some seed planted decades ago during Catechism class of my childhood? Somehow knowing God was the answer, but I had long ago turned away from God, surely after all these years there was no way for me to get back on God’s plan for me.
Thoughts of God kept coming to the forefront, could it be a seed trying to sprout up from the cluttered, muddled fog my thoughts had become. The miraculous way God gets her attention and the numerous God moments that follow to change the course of her life and continue on today to do so.
[What, what would have become of me] had I not believed that I would see the Lord's goodness in the land of the living! Psalm 27:13-14 AMP (NIV)
The story above is my journey from brokenness to wholeness, from nothing to having hope, a future and embracing the life God meant for me. My past does not define me, it is my uniqueness that does.
The working title: Life Without Purpose, hurts, is at 40,000 plus word unfinished non-fiction manuscript. The story is timely in that it touches on what many have experienced in recent years, unemployment to starting a business, closing the business, getting into debt. Leaving the state to find work to keep from losing the house, returning home, unemployment ending. The aftermath of our present economy that many common folks have had to endure; filing bankruptcy, house being foreclosed. At age fifty-six attending college for the very first time thanks to Presidents Obama’s 2009 stimulus package to put dislocated workers back to work. I will graduate with Honors Dec. 2011 with an AA degree in Criminal Justice.
Thank you for your time and consideration, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.