Kitty and The Midnight Hour
BY Carrie vaughn grand central2005Query Letter
To Whom It May Concern:
I am seeking representation for my novel, Kitty and the Midnight Hour, which is complete and available for review. A sequel is in progress.
My short stories have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, Talebones, and Polyphony and have received Honorable Mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and The Year's Best Science Fiction. I am a 1998 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop.
Kitty and the Midnight Hour is supernatural/dark fantasy, in the spirit of works by Laurell K. Hamilton and Tanya Huff. Short stories featuring the main character have appeared in Weird Tales: "Doctor Kitty Solves All Your Love Problems" in Summer 2001 and "Kitty Loses Her Faith" in Fall 2003. I recently sold "Kitty and the Mosh Pit of the Damned" to the magazine. The first story is available on my website, www.carrievaughn.com.
Twenty-four year old Kitty Norville is a werewolf who hosts a late-night call-in radio show, The Midnight Hour, offering advice and opinionated conversation to her audience of supernatural beings and non-supernatural listeners looking for a vicarious thrill. The show brings her fame, and fame brings its own headaches. Rivalries threaten to tear apart her pack, a werewolf hunter sets his sights on her, and a police detective persuades her to help solve a series of gruesome supernatural murders.
Thank you for your time in considering this proposal. Please let me know if I can send you the manuscript of Kitty and the Midnight Hour. I look forward to hearing from you.
About
Age Range
Adult
Genre
Fantasy (Contemporary)
Word Count
75,000
Book Link
Query Stats
Number of Queries Sent
~10
Number of Full Requests Received
2
Number of Offers of Representation
1
Number of Months Spent Querying This Novel
3 months
Years Spent Writing Before Getting an Offer
14
Number of Manuscripts Queried Before This One
3
Publication Status of The Book Queried
Published (Big 5)
Years Spent Writing Before This Book was Published
14. I started submitted short stories to magazines in about 1990. I'd been publishing short stories since 1999.
Note to Querying Writers:
My query letter is 20 years old, and probably sadly out of date for what's current in the business. But my first novel did very well and formed the backbone of my career that's now 20+ years strong. My 24th trad published novel, The Naturalist Society, will be out in October 2024.
My most interesting stats are how long it took to sell that first novel -- almost 9 years and three trunked manuscripts.