Preparing to Pitch Your Manuscript

This isn't exactly a how-to on crafting query letters, but these two blog entries here and here will help you get a real feel for your story so that you can condense it down to one sentence (what they call a log line in the film business) in order to introduce your pitch and give a framework for expanding upon it. This is something you will definitely need if you intend to pitch to agents and/or editors at writers conferences. It also keeps you from being stumped when anyone you may meet asks you to describe your book.

Additionally, while this procedure is outlined for developing a good pitch, I believe we can greatly improve our query letters by following this same exercise. Why do I think this? Because it was recommended by a well-known agent (the same one who hosts the QueryShark blog).

In fact, this Editorrent blog is so useful that I've decided to add it to my links.