Oh the dreaded query letter, why do I fear thee so?

        Now that I have an amazing website, I need to kick my butt in gear and send off my query letters. My goal is to send to 50 agents. I can always send to more, but what would be the point of putting all my eggs in one basket by sending it to less than 20.  It sounds easy, but the reality is that I am my own worst critic. I write a" hook" for my book and a synopsis then when I look at it, I sigh in disapproval.  I worry that it will be rejected each time and I fear that my letter will not be up to par with other aspiring writers' letters. Then the letter and my manuscript will go straight to the "slush pile" never to be read or even picked up by an agent's assistant. I wrote my book with such ease, but this is hard. One hard part is my biography, mainly because I do not have any biography to record. They don't want to know that I am a mother of three, a teacher or that I work at my church. They also don't care about my writing career as an amateur either. So I am left more room to describe my book right? Well yes, but try writing a synopsis for a book you wrote that is almost 50,000 words and only getting less than a page to do it in. I am definetly struggling on this. I will get it done and I will try very hard to change my point of veiw and be a little more optimistic. I think I enjoy being a pessimist though. I am going to also force myself to finish one of my other three in progress stories. Then people will have something to read when they come to my beautiful website.  :-)