Kellye cash biography sampler

When my debut came out in 2019, I wrote a little guide to finding an agent and included my exact query letter — before and after, in fact, showing its too-long first draft and then the edited version I sent out. Years later, querying authors still reach out to thank me for it. Which got me thinking…why not create a whole compendium of successful book pitches? Elevator pitches are hard, whether you’re crystallizing a new book idea, pitching your manuscript, or trying to convince readers to buy your book. These diamonds in the slush pile show you what works.

Here, I’m sharing the winning queries that helped published authors get their agents. (More are coming in every month!) I’ve shared their titles in my Bookshop storefront and linked further resources at the end. Enjoy, and subscribe to my newsletter for tons of writing and publishing tips!

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Liz Alterman
Chandler Baker
Kathleen Barber
Andrea Bartz
Julia Bartz
Laurie Batzel
Lauren Ling Brown
Lindsay Cameron
Mike Chen
Christina Clancy
May Cobb
Julia Dahl
Saumya Dave
Layne Fargo
Nan Fischer
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Kellye Garrett
Katie Gutierrez
Zakiya Dalila Harris
Jennifer Hillier
Cate Holahan
Jenny Hollander
Natalie Jenner
Lindsey Kelk
AH Kim
Angie Kim
Leah Ko

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Women and personal possessions: 17th-century testamentary evidence from counties Waterford and Kilkenny, Ireland.

by T. G. Fewer.

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Introduction.

In a recent review article, Maureen Meikle (1994: 71) pointed out that, in general, although "books and articles appear every month" on women in modern history, similar work for the medieval and early modern periods "has been much slower to appear". This problem has been echoed in Ireland where, until the publication in 1991 of a collection of essays entitled Women in early modern Ireland, few authors dealt with the historical experience of women during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (MacCurtain and O'Dowd 1991: 3; Anon. 1989). While some historians of women's history such as Marina Ward (1991: 5) prefer to concentrate on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries "because this is the period when Irishwomen were at their most active in the political arena", others are simply daunted by the paucity of historical records pre-dating 1800 that refer to women (MacCurtain and O'Dowd 1991).

The problem of locating historical sources relating to women from this period is an international one, but Ireland's position was made worse when one of its main archives, the Public Record Office, was consum