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	<title>Comments on: Query + 500 #2</title>
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	<description>She'll write a book to go with it...</description>
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		<title>By: If You Give a Girl a Pen&#8230; &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Critiquing</title>
		<link>http://giveagirlapen.com/revising-manuscripts/query-500-2/comment-page-1#comment-966</link>
		<dc:creator>If You Give a Girl a Pen&#8230; &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Critiquing</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Query + 500 # 2 [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Anica Lewis</title>
		<link>http://giveagirlapen.com/revising-manuscripts/query-500-2/comment-page-1#comment-933</link>
		<dc:creator>Anica Lewis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ooh, I remember this beginning!  Still good, though I do feel the need to poke you about the comma at the beginning of the second paragraph that needs to be a semicolon.  Am I hopeless?  :P

I like the query a lot.  The punctuation in the first paragraph could be sorted out a bit, and I&#039;d really like to see a new sentence for &lt;i&gt;She dreams of murders that actually happen . . . as they&#039;re happening&lt;/i&gt;.  For the first sentence, you might try &lt;i&gt;. . . has vivid dreams - nightmares that take her inside the mind of a killer.&lt;/i&gt;

The query is a very good length, and you do a great job laying out your credentials.  You might want to change &lt;i&gt;this edgy, young adult urban fantasy&lt;/i&gt; to &lt;i&gt;the edgy YA urban fantasy&lt;/i&gt; - &quot;this&quot; to &quot;the&quot; because you then follow with the title, and removing the comma after &quot;edgy&quot; because both &quot;YA urban fantasy&quot; is a genre by itself, not a list of adjectives.

In the previous paragraph, I would rework the first sentence a little:  &lt;i&gt;Sam finds herself attracted not only to . . . but to one of the Flesh Eaters.&lt;/i&gt;  This makes the parallel construction of the sentence clearer and avoids repetition of &quot;monster&quot; with the next sentence.

I would also remove &lt;i&gt;If you would like to consider my novel&lt;/i&gt;, as the agent can probably guess that&#039;s why you&#039;re contacting her/him.  :)

Good stuff!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ooh, I remember this beginning!  Still good, though I do feel the need to poke you about the comma at the beginning of the second paragraph that needs to be a semicolon.  Am I hopeless?  <img src='http://giveagirlapen.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I like the query a lot.  The punctuation in the first paragraph could be sorted out a bit, and I&#8217;d really like to see a new sentence for <i>She dreams of murders that actually happen . . . as they&#8217;re happening</i>.  For the first sentence, you might try <i>. . . has vivid dreams &#8211; nightmares that take her inside the mind of a killer.</i></p>
<p>The query is a very good length, and you do a great job laying out your credentials.  You might want to change <i>this edgy, young adult urban fantasy</i> to <i>the edgy YA urban fantasy</i> &#8211; &#8220;this&#8221; to &#8220;the&#8221; because you then follow with the title, and removing the comma after &#8220;edgy&#8221; because both &#8220;YA urban fantasy&#8221; is a genre by itself, not a list of adjectives.</p>
<p>In the previous paragraph, I would rework the first sentence a little:  <i>Sam finds herself attracted not only to . . . but to one of the Flesh Eaters.</i>  This makes the parallel construction of the sentence clearer and avoids repetition of &#8220;monster&#8221; with the next sentence.</p>
<p>I would also remove <i>If you would like to consider my novel</i>, as the agent can probably guess that&#8217;s why you&#8217;re contacting her/him.  <img src='http://giveagirlapen.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Good stuff!</p>
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		<title>By: Steena</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steena</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now I&#039;m curious - what accident, why is she moving and man - I like the &#039;hotness&#039;.

I like it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now I&#8217;m curious &#8211; what accident, why is she moving and man &#8211; I like the &#8216;hotness&#8217;.</p>
<p>I like it.</p>
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		<title>By: Jamie</title>
		<link>http://giveagirlapen.com/revising-manuscripts/query-500-2/comment-page-1#comment-914</link>
		<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s good but the -- are overused.

Also... I never realized this before, but I am TOTALLY tripping over the Paw-pa. Like, I have no idea how that would be said irl lol!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s good but the &#8212; are overused.</p>
<p>Also&#8230; I never realized this before, but I am TOTALLY tripping over the Paw-pa. Like, I have no idea how that would be said irl lol!</p>
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