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For those who enjoy writing and do not want to wait any longer to be published! Book Excerpt
Query
letters that sell
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WORKSHOP = Erik Bean speaking live at an Ann Arbor freelance workshop.
EB WORKSHOP: A query is simply a short letter about a proposed story or article you'd like to sell a particular publication. Query letters should never be more than one page long. Isn't that good news? Whenever you send a query letter to a publisher for any magazine article that you're going to write, you're only going to be sending out a one-page query letter. How fantastic is that? Probably in 12-point text, with whatever font you feel comfortable with. Hey , this is the new millennium. Did you ever grow up thinking you would have a favorite font? I did. I'm in the Arial stage now. I like Arial, I like Times New Roman. Of course those are the two most popular fonts in which you will be submitting your query letters. I would suggest putting it in 11.5 or 12-point font. Don't submit your material in a 13-point font. Don't scream at your editor. And never, never, under any circumstances, editorialize when you are sending out a query letter. Never say this is a fascinating story, about a wonderful doctor who lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan (for example). That is editorializing. That's not allowed. Let the doctor tell the story. Most stories are successful when you let the sources in your story do the talking. Let them tell the story and be the authoritative experts. You get to shape it and you get to craft the story in the direction you want it to go. You can never remove 100 percent of the biases out of any non-fiction story. You can see (Workshop participants were given a query bullet list handout) that queries should include:
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