Tucson Festival of Books

Sell Your Book: How to Write Query Letters


Explore the art of writing an effective one-page query letter as a sales pitch to an agent or editor to interest them in a book project. Hailey Alcaraz shares the important components of a query letter and invites writers to create a draft of a letter for their own book ideas.


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Hailey Alcaraz

Hailey Alcaraz writes multicultural coming-of-age books about girls using their heartbreak to change the world. She began her writing career in the sixth grade as a kid reporter for Time For Kids and remains passionate about crafting stories about identity, love and resilience....

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Book:
Rosa by Any Other Name
Hailey Alcaraz
Teen
Penguin Group
August 2025
ISBN 9780593525579
416 pages
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