THE

QUERY LETTER
THAT LANDED ME

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The Letter
Seventeen-year-old Anna Meadows is ugly, and she knows it. She's
happiest behind the camera editing videos, where no one can compare
her to her gorgeous older sister. So when she hears that Rosey
Cosmetics is launching a YouTube contest to find a new beauty
ambassador? Hard pass. Even if the competition is her one path to
VidCon.

When Anna’s idol, YouTuber Skye Stevens, personally encourages her

to enter, Anna decides to step into the spotlight––although she’s sure
only the “symmetrically blessed” will succeed. To Anna’s surprise, her
tongue-in-cheek make-up tutorials charm fans—and her technophobe
friend Ben, whom Anna is secretly in love with.
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telling Ben—and the internet—how she feels about him.

Anna’s efforts to win the competition might result in the rejection she’s
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symmetrically blessed or not, deserves a happy ending.