Sample query letter: Your Name Street Address City, State Zip Code Telephone # & e-mail address July 1, 2005 Ms. Erika Redpen Associate Editor Ballistic Bestseller Books 1000 Broadway New York, NY 10000 Dear Ms. Redpen,       My completed manuscript, Deadly Remembrance, is a 100,000 word contemporary romantic suspense.  My work recently won the Florida Romance Authors' Dynamite Dialogue Contest and is currently a finalist in the Orange Rose.        In four years on the trauma unit, Dr. Tess Masterson has never seen a burn as brutal as the one covering half of the latest John Doe's face.  Worse, her enigmatic patient can't remember who he is or how the accident happened.  CIA agent Patrick Lanahan knows he can't continue his amnesia charade for long, but he hopes the ruse will buy him enough recovery time to hunt down his would-be killer before his enemy unleashes a deadly virus on an unsuspecting city.  When Tess discovers hints of his past along with a strain of a new illness in the E.R. however, Patrick has no choice but to launch them both into a dangerous journey to stop a madman.       An active member in my local RWA chapter, I have been writing for five years, during which time I have completed four romantic suspense and medical thriller-style romantic manuscripts.  I have been a surgical nurse for fifteen years and hold a Master's Degree in Biology.  Although I am currently unpublished in fiction, my publishing credits include numerous non-fiction articles in medical publications.       I look forward to your response, and have the completed manuscript ready to submit upon request.  I've enclosed an SASE for your convenience, but I can also be reached via email willa@willwriter.com or at 555-222-3333.  Thank you so much for your time! Sincerely, Willa Writer enc. "Submission Primer 101" by Catherine Mann & Joanne Rock © Romance Writers Report, November 2003