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- ..QUERY1.LET The Text File of letters to query publishers who have
- .. not yet responded to submissions.
- ..
- ..Be sure to request prompts for query letters when your run AGENT4.EXE
- ..to install My_Agent. (or run INSTALL from the Utility Menu)
- ..
- ..Users may modify this text as they please.
- ..
- ..Use the Non-Document mode of your word-processor, to prepare ASCII text
- ..
- ..In general, do not indent here. My_Agent indents for you, the number of
- ..columns which you specified (and can change) in Install (Agent4).
- ..
- ..The program ignores any line which begins with 2 dots.
- ..
- ..The program recognizes three commands if those commands
- ..begin in the first column of a line:
- ..
- .. .PA automatically ends the page
- .. .CP n ends the only if you have fewer than n lines left.
- .. ~ signals that you want to enter text from the keyboard.
- .. The program prompts you to do so, and tells you how
- .. to return to your letter text.
- ..
- .. With QUERY1.LET the program also prompts whether you
- .. have queried earlier. When you have, you might want
- .. to enter stronger text when the program prompts at the ~.
- ..
- .. Note: Use page-end commands only if you need them within your
- .. text. Don't put them at the end. The program does those.
- ..
- ..The text below always comes after any installed heading, the date,
- ..the inside address, and "Dear editor" line. You should end the text with
- ..your own version of "Yours Truly". Include your name only if you have not
- ..installed a heading. The program always then lists the manuscripts
- ..involved for this particular publisher.
- ..
- ..When you have mastered the principles here. You might want to delete
- ..these lines from the working copies of all of your .LET files, to speed
- ..the My_Agent printouts of them, and to save space.
- ..
- ..A model text follows:
- ............................................................................
- I hope that you will my material, which I sent you several months ago.
-
- I enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope. Please assure me that you
- received it. Do you know when you will decide?
-
- ~
-
- Sincerely yours,