Ready To Query!

I am ready to start the query process...finally! So I thought I'd share with you the query I will be using.  Here it is:

Dear Agent,


Emily has seen her dad knock her mom around enough to know she’s better off away from her parents, especially when they’re drunk. She seeks comfort by confiding in Nicky, the boy next door, who often speaks of finding a girl who shares his faith in God. Since she doubts the God he believes in, she lets him leave for college without revealing her love for him.

With Nicky gone, each day for Emily is another day of picking up broken beer bottles. But Emily wonders if the faith that comes so easily to Nicky can fill the void caused by his absence. She’s willing to try the faith thing, but crying out to God doesn’t save her when she’s forced to the floor by a family friend and her clothes are ripped off. So much for trusting in Him. When the blood and bruises aren’t enough to convince her parents she was raped, Emily aches for the comfort and love only Nicky can provide. Telling him she was raped won’t be easy. But telling him how she feels -- about him and about God -- will be harder.


SHARDS OF GLASS is a 90,000 word YA novel. Thank you for your consideration.


Sincerely,


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There it is! I'll probably start sending out small batches at a time.  If I don't get any requests, I'll revise the query and send out some more.  Feel free to leave a comment with what you think.