Hey Ann,
What a wonderful post for me to find this morning! I was busting my hump last night trying to tweak that query letter...and I did pull some phrases from the post into it but they didn't seem to fit. But on the strength of what you say here (and it don't make no never mind that you're not in publishing, you're a reader and reader response is the most important response there is!) I'm going to try a different tack tonight, build the query around those sentences instead of try to put them into the existing query. I swear, writing the book was easypeasy. Writing the query letter is the hardest thing I've ever done...so having to do it all over again is just....um.....

(that's a tantrum now, not rofl

)
So thanks, dear one, for the encouragement. Does my heart good!!!!!
love & hugs
Chansy