25 Professional Query and Cover Letters

Nothing is more important to selling your magazine articles and nonfiction books than sharp, tight query letters, while cover letters are vital to selling to newspapers and to selling reprints or second rights. Most beginners, if they know about the letters at all, have few examples of what professionals actually send editors. So in this report Gordon Burgett has written the five cover letters and asked his American Society of Journalists and Authors colleagues to let newcomers see their 20...