Lesson I learned from several agents and editors at a recent Literary Festival - make sure the first line specifies GENRE, COMPELTED WORK, and # WORDS. "Blanket Bazooka is a completed fantasy novel of 80,000 words. It features..."

Oh, and they said the kiss of death was calling your work a "fiction novel" since that's redundant (redundant.) Two different literary agencies said they automatically reject queries that refer to their fiction novels! I guess we're lucky because we write in a specific genre that we can mention. That advice was geared more toward mainstream fiction writers (the festival was mainstream in tone and content, very little speculative fiction present.)

Thanks.

There are already a couple examples of people posting query letters on the forum. Just look around and you'll find them.