Provides professional guidance for all writing-related correspondence, be it a query to an editor, a request for a celebrity interview or a book proposal.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
How t Write Attention Grabbing Query & Cover Letters:
Beyond fundamentals of letters, this valuable resource has great guidance on what to say and not say, to whom, and when, in pursuit of publication. This being my current (and not previously accomplished) aim, I am deeply grateful for the assistance in not shooting my chances in the foot.
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I wish I'd read the other reviews here before I'd bought this book. I wouldn't have bought it. The biggest problem, not mentioned in another review: The book was originally published in 1996 and doesn't reflect the changes the internet has caused in the industry.
I regret buying this book:
I'm a novelist, and this book did not live up to my expectations. Most of the book was written for non-fiction writers. I've read other query letter guides, which advise authors to - avoid using opinion to describe your own work (such as 'fast-paced')
- avoid using adjectives and adverbs to describe the story And Mr. Wood agrees. In the short section on novel queries, he includes three examples of query letters that got the attention of their new agents or publishers. Two of them broke... more info
Good reference, although mostly for non-fiction writers:
I've rated this book based on it's value overall, not just it's value for me. In other words, I'm trying to be objective.
This book would be a valuable resource for me if I were a non-fiction writer. The sections on non-fiction book and article proposals took up most of the book, with the section on the novel proposals, query letters and synopses taking up about a quarter of the book.
On a positive note, the book does include good examples of things writers shouldn't do when writing and submitting these... more info
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