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Don'ts for Query Letters
Writing a query letter can be confusing and stressful. Find out how not to make it worse.
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Breaking the Query Letter Rules
Trying to get a gig, convince an employer or snag an opportunity? There are a lot of rules to follow when it comes to query letters, but is it okay to just be yourself?
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More Query Letter Mistakes
Don't make fatal errors that will cause your query letter to end up in the garbage. Pay attention to these recommended DON'TS for query letters.
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Query Letter Mistakes
Don't make fatal errors that will cause your query letter to end up in the garbage. Pay attention to these recommended DON'TS for query letters.
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Addressing your Query Letter
The first step in writing an effective query letter is to address it properly. What are the rules for titles and names?
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Query Writing
Techniques and tips to help with query writing including a sample query letter.
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Your Query Letter Hook
The hook is important to making sure your letter doesn't end up in the recycling bin. How can you ensure your reader will want to read more?
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Beyond the Query Letter
Sending out query after query becomes a tedious task for the freelance writer. Successful writers however, never send out a query but have enough work to keep their keyboards whistling a happy tune. How? Face and name recognition is key!
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Bonus Article--Hmm … Maybe I Could Write for Magazines!
This week, we feature a bonus article about a Suite101 course I recently completed, <a href=http://www.suite101.com/course.cfm/16728/overview/486034><I>Magazine Writing</I></a>.
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How to Create a Winning Submission
When writers are ready to submit their manuscripts to publishers, they sometimes rush into sending their work out without researching the publishers fully.
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How to Write Great Query Letters
Writing great query letters is a skill that you can perfect with practice, to increase your chances of getting assignments and making more money
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Making First Contact
Your research has identified opportunities to present your script. What next? Are there rules or standards for contacting these people? You bet.
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Marketing - Six: Writing the query letter
Market Your Writing - Writing the query letter
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New Year, Fresh Opportunities
With the dawn of a new year, take (and make) opportunities to get your writing out there.
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Parts of a Query
A good query letter is the first step to having an article published. A query is simply a letter, selling your idea to the editor. This week we look at the parts of a successful query, using an actual query letter.
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Targeting Opportunities
You have a script (or scripts) that are ready to send out. Where do you send it? How do you find the best potential targets among the hundreds (or thousands) of possibilities.
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The Query Letter
Getting self employment jobs is the only way to make self employment work. The query letter is an important tool for any professional, and a self employed secret.
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Writing a Query Letter
Tips on how to write a query letter with a summary and help an author grab an editor's attention with a good grabber sentence.
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Writing Query Letters
It's the most cost-effective method of getting the word out about your plays. You can cover a lot of territory, both geographically and throughout the industry. Here are some ideas and examples for writing queries for stage plays.
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Become a Non-Fiction Specialist
Developing a specialty in your non-fiction career can make you more in demand by editors, and earn you more money in the process
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Choosing Winning Article Titles
The title you give your piece of non-fiction should draw a reader, and an editor's interest, and make them want to read on.
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Creating Your Marketing Hook
If you're ready to pitch your novel to an agent or editor at a conference or want to write an attention-grabbing query letter, a gripping, tight "hook" is a must.
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How to Sell Yourself
Want to be self employed? Professionals have to know how to sell themselves to employers and customers to make any money at all. Learn the secrets of marketing from home.
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How To Write Great Sidebars
Sidebars are great for explaining things that might otherwise interrupt an article's flow, and for adding extra tips and information that a reader will appreciate.
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Magazine Writing – A course review
A brief review of the Magazine Writing course at Suite 101
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Review: Magazine Writing - Course by Lisa-Ann Sanderson
Review of the SuiteUniversity Online Course: "Magazine Writing" - Lisa-Anne Sanderson, Instructor.
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Tips for Beginning Writers
Have you just decided that you want to write for a living? Here are some tips to help you start out.
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Writers' Markets and Guidelines
Writers' market books are a useful freelance tool. They will point you to a possible market for your idea, and save you a lot of wasted time.
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Always Looking for Work?
Always looking for work? Finding new jobs takes time, but sometimes it may seem there's more time spent chasing down the jobs than actually doing them.
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How to Find a Literary Agent
Finding the right literary agent can be a challenge. Here are several online and print resources to make the hunt less daunting, to avoid the pitfalls of scam artists
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Write Young, Get Published
Advice for writers in their teens and early twenties interested in starting a writing career.
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Write Young, Manage Your Career
Advice for writers in their teens and early twenties interested in managing their new writing career.
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