Colleen Lindsay, literary agent and blogger over at The Swivet, has started up a new query contest. But this isn’t your usual 3-paragraph “Dear Madame” query. No. It’s got to be in haiku form. That’s right. Did you know there are strict rules on how to write a haiku? Three lines, five syllables in the first, seven in the second, and five again in the last. Any straying from those guidelines and your entry doesn’t count. There also doesn’t seem to be a limit as to how many times you can enter, but I wouldn’t abuse that too much.
Here’s my first try, based on my almost-first-drafted WIP:
“Prophet versus Cook
Who stays in kitchen and gives
Rude gesture to Fate.”
So start working on those tiny, cute queries and get them posted on her blog comments by midnight this Friday. Then check back to see which entries make it into the top ten. The winner receives a critique of their real query.
Have fun!
I see that smile.
I entered, not because I want a query critique, but because haiku queries are just too cute an idea not to jump at!
The next query contest should be…inkblots! Turn your query into an inkblot and then have people stare at it and try to figure out what it means.
haha same… I just love haikus so much I couldn’t pass up the opportunity!