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- From: apdolan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (dolan andrew)
- Subject: getting published/queries & agents
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- Summary: getting published/queries and agents
- Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:21:25 GMT
- Keywords: getting published/queries & agents
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- If you have an unpublished manuscript, do not mail it out on an unsolicited basis. At least as concerns book manuscripts, one should put together a
- query letter summarizing the contents and ask an editor to request all or part of the manuscript. One good book on this topic is by literary agent
- Jeff Herman(Hermann?)"The Insider's Guide to Publishers". He tells how to
- write a query letter and tells you how to target editors by their
- subject matter specialties, such as sports or cookbooks. He also has a bit to say about literary agents such as himself.
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- Another good book is "The Writer's Guide to Query Letters",
- by Gordon Burgett. He has a lot of sample queries for both
- books and magazine articles. Both of these books are put out
- by Prima Press or Publishing, which I've noticed seems to put out
- a number of books for frelance writers.
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- If anyone else has comments, suggestions on other books not mentioned above,
- I'd like to hear from you on this bulletin board. I have a particular
- interest in travel writing and publishing.
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