.....is definitely half the battle! Tweaking a scene here and there, query rewrites..... I think the query letter is a million times harder to write than the story itself! How much of yourself do you put out there? Summarizing the story in a paragraph or two? Not as easy as you'd think. I'm working towards a deadline of Nov. 1---and then out the query letters and manuscript go into cyberspace. Wish me luck!