Fake Query Letters by Dead Authors

By David Griffin Brown and Michelle Barker

Don't make agents cry for all the wrong reasons

Fake Query Letters by Dead Authors offers new strategies to ditch the heartache, headaches, and frustration of querying. We step into an agent's shoes to review five fake query letters and synopses of classic novels, along with their (not fake) opening pages, and then discuss strategies for finding an agent and/or publisher.

Join us in the Fake Deads universe for some hilariously awful submissions and find joy in the process of querying.

Under the microscope:

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane AustenWuthering Heights, by Emily Bront The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel HawthorneAnne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud MontgomeryJane Eyre, by Charlotte Bront

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1738076687
• ISBN13: 9781738076680
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Darling Axe Publishing
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"