The Writer's Guide to Query Letters & Cover Letters

by Gordon Burgett

Differenciates between a query letter and a cover letter, discusses when to use each format, and provides suggestions on composing both types of letters to editors. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559581182
• ISBN13: 9781559581189
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Prima Lifestyles
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Resource for Writers

If you want to sell your writing--be it fiction or nonfiction--you are going to have to write a query and/or cover letter eventually. This book is an excellent resource/desk reference for crafting these kinds of letters so they grab an editors attention and convince her/him to hire you or buy your story. Written in the same style that Burgett speaks--to the point and personable--this book also introduces you to his concept of "selling 75 percent of your freelance writing."