• COVER/QUERY LETTERS by Christine Harrell - The recipe for creating the perfect cover/query letter is simple: give editors and agents what they want, no more and no less. ^pop (Added: 14-Aug-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• FREELANCE WRITERS: ARE YOU MISSING THE MARK WITH YOUR QUERIES, COVER LETTERS, AND SUCH? by Suzanne Lieurance - If you want to be a busy "working" freelance writer, you can't continually miss the mark with your queries, cover letters, and such. Here are some tips for hitting the target with these materials and landing plenty of well-paying and interesting writing assignments. ^pop (Added: 27-Jul-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• 10 STEPS TO A MAGAZINE QUERY by Mui Tsun - A query letter is a sales pitch: your goal is to convince the editor that your article idea is of interest to her readers and that you are the best person to write it. (Added: 26-Sep-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• A QUICK GUIDE TO MANUSCRIPT FORMAT by Moira Allen - Manuscript format should be a fairly simple issue. Yet from some of the questions I've received, it would seem that people like to make it complicated -- from editors who prefer a particular style and therefore declare that all editors want the same style, to writers' groups who insist that one must use this font and that layout and so forth. (Added: 26-Sep-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• ARE YOU SURE YOUR QUERY IS READY? by Gary McLaren - One magazine. Hundreds of writers. Thousands of queries. One editor. One desktop ... and a trashcan that appears to be incredibly, almost unimaginably deep. Where exactly will your submission go? (Added: 26-Sep-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• ARTICLE QUERIES THAT SELL by Barb Clews - Queries are not written like business letters or emails; they are specifically designed to sell your articles. (Added: 26-Sep-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• BUILDING A ROCK SOLID QUERY LETTER by Sophfronia Scott - I used to think query letters were relatively easy, but now I realize that a query has to do so many things that it's easy to forget essential elements. Since the letter is your first step in putting your book's best foot forward, you don't want that to happen. So here's a simple rundown on what goes into a solid query letter. (Added: 26-Sep-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• Cover Letters for Short Stories by C. M. Clifton - In regards to short story submissions, cover letters are usually brief letters containing one to three short paragraphs, and is most often paper-clipped in front of your manuscript's first page when you snail mail your submission. (Added: 17-Jan-2008) Detail | Go to Article |

• COVER LETTERS: WHEN, WHY, AND HOW TO USE THEM by Moira Allen - When you submit a manuscript to an editor, should you include a cover letter? The answer isn't always obvious. On the one hand, a manuscript stuffed into an envelope all by itself seems so -- well, naked! (Added: 26-Sep-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• CREATIVE QUERY LETTERS by Andrea Di Salvo - Query letters are your first impression on the editor, your customer. That’s why you need to use all your creativity to write an effective query letter. Telling an editor you have an idea isn’t enough. Writer’s Digest editor Thomas Clark has identified five essential aspects that should be in every query you write. (Added: 26-Sep-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• Creative Writer's Secret to Writing a Professional Query Letter by Deborah Owen - Editors know what they are looking for in a query letter. This guide follows the teaching of Noah Lukeman, editor, novelist, literary agent and teacher at Writer's University. (Added: 18-Mar-2009) Detail | Go to Article |

• DON'T FALL INTO THE QUERY LETTER QUANDARY by Shery Ma Belle Arrieta - He wrote the book on how to write killer query letters. In this interview, author John Wood shares his knowledge based on 17 years of working as an editor. More than 30,000 query letters have landed on his desk. Wood lets us in on the things that make or break query letters, and how you, the writer, can get past the editor's desk and be published. (Added: 26-Sep-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• FREELANCE WRITERS: DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH QUERY LETTERS by Susan Daffron - Virtually everything ever written about freelance writing and getting published says that you need to write query letters. Yet in the Internet Age, the truth of the matter is that query letters are almost always a huge waste of time. (Added: 26-Sep-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• HOW TO ANNOY AN EDITOR IN 10 EASY STEPS - OR LESS! by Kim-Marie Ward - Editors hope that writers sending in queries are at least aware of the basic protocol required. Sometimes, our hopes are dashed. The following ten guidelines are the ones most likely to increase your chances of never seeing your book in print. (Added: 26-Sep-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

• HOW TO BE AN EDITOR'S FIRST CHOICE by Mridu Khullar - There are writers who editors like, and those they’d bet their careers on. How can you be that writer who the editor will call on every time she needs an important assignment to be done? Are you a hot favorite or a pass-on-for-another-freelancer who keeps querying but receives no response? Here are the qualities that will endear you to an editor. (Added: 26-Sep-2007) Detail | Go to Article |

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