How to Write Attention-Grabbing Query & Cover Letters

John Wood

ISBN 10: 0898797047 / ISBN 13: 9780898797046

Published by Writers Digest Books (edition First Edition), 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Write Attention-Grabbing Query & Cover Letters
• Publisher: Writers Digest Books (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898797047
• ISBN 13: 9780898797046
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

John Wood sees it with numbing regularity: the query letter that comes close to making a sale - until the writer makes some fatal, but avoidable mistake.

So the Modern Maturity senior editor wrote this letter-writer's guidebook. Read it, learn from it, use its secrets to write queries that get accepted.

Discover:

• why boldness beats blandness every time
  
  
• how to rocket your query right past the slush pile
  
  
• how to make a big impression with a little cover letter
  
  
• the 10 basics you must have in your article query
  
  
• the 10 query blunders that can ruin your chances
  
  
• how to dramatize your novel with a query/synopsis package
  
  
• what a book proposal is, why you need it, and how to write it

As you publish more, your professional correspondence will increase. Whether the correspondence is a complaint to your editor, a celebrity interview request or anything else connected with your career, you'll make it ring with style and professionalism with this book.

Wood includes chapter-ending Question & Answer sections that clarify issues concerning the type of letter at hand. He's also packed the book with illustrative samples. You'll see many that are pure dynamite - and one real bomb.

Read this book and immediately begin to write energetic, masterly, persuasive letters. Keep editors hanging on your words. Make them eager to buy your work.