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Notes on Being a Pack Rat
A pack rat? Guilty. I admit it. I’ve been a pack rat for years. But I don’t hoard everything. No old newspapers, balls of string, or useless items for me. I hoard articles about writing. My treasures...
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What Not to Put into a Query Letter
When a young writer asked me to look over the query letter she intended to send to a national magazine, I was not surprised to find that the query started with the words, “I’ve never been published...
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Here’s Good Query-Writing Help
If you hate writing query letters, or if you have questions about submitting a query, you might want to pay a visit to The Urban Muse, Susan Johnston’s site. Her post, “10 Tips on Querying Magazines...
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Selling Yourself to An Editor
Some writing advice is timeless; some needs to be adjusted over time. An example: At one time, a written query, complete with SASE (self-addressed, stamped envelope) was the only acceptable way to...
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A Query Letter Alert (about an interview with Wendy Burt-Thomas)
Today I received an email alert from Victoria Mixon about her just-posted interview with Wendy Burt-Thomas, author of The Writer’s Digest Guide to Query Letters. In this far-reaching interview, Wendy...
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Some Basic Query-Writing Tips
Although I’ve been published many times since my first byline in 1974, I have a confession to make: I hate writing queries. I know they’re a necessary step in getting your work published, but I always...
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