Writing an E-Mail Query Letter

Many magazine, literary agents, publishers, etc., are accepting e-mail query letters. E-queries use a different format than the standard query letter sent through the postal mail. And, if you’re like me (unpublished but taken steps to rectify that deficiency) you don’t know what a query should look like.

I found an article at Associated Content that should help.It covers salutations, contact information, subject headings, attachments, and length. As always, be sure to do your homework and learn what the place your querying prefers.

Here’s a post , 16 Tips for Writing An Email Query by Anne Waymon.

Writing an E-Mail Query Letter to a Literary Agent

Many magazine, literary agents, publishers, etc., are accepting e-mail query letters. E-queries use a different format than the standard query letter sent through the postal mail. And, if you’re like me (unpublished but taken steps to rectify that deficiency) you don’t know what a query should look like.

I found an article at Associated Content that should help.It covers salutations, contact information, subject headings, attachments, and length. As always, be sure to do your homework and learn what the place your querying prefers.

Remember Molly

Image from Wikipedia

My goodness, has Molly Ivins really been gone for two years?

She knew stuff:

“I realize this is not breaking news, but we are looking at something exceptional in political history with this race. . . . The Internet is breaking open old power structures and set ways of doing things. Most campaign consultants have no idea what do with it or about it. How delightful.”

Prescient.

So beloveds, pour yourself a Lonestar, put your feet on the table, and remember the incomparable Molly Ivins. (BTW, she first appears on the video at 17 minutes).

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Damn, I miss her.

You might check “What Would Molly Think?” by Betsy Moon, a consultant and former assistant to Molly Ivins, on the Huffington Post.

Bjorn Lomborg

I find Bjorn Lomborg to be one of the most persuasive voices on the planet. Money quote:

An African safari trip once confronted America’s new president with a question he could not answer: why the rich world prized elephants over African children. Today’s version of that question is: why will richer nations spend obscene amounts of money on climate change, achieving next to nothing in 100 years, when we could do so much good for mankind today for much less money?

Read the whole essay here.

The Medea Hypothesis

So much for James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis–the idea that life sustains habitable conditions on earth. Enter The Medea Hypothesis.  Peter Ward argues that most of Earth’s mass extinctions were caused life itself, and we have the hydrogen sulfide markers to prove it.

There’s an interesting TED Talk here (about 20 minutes).

Study Finds People Like Study Findings

THE WEEK magazine’s contest for this week involved studies that state the obvious:

A new study has determined that the closer teenagers live to a lot of liquor stores, the more likely it is that they will drink. Astounding! Please invent another scientific study that proves the obvious and provide the headline for that study. For example: Students Who Study Outperform Those Who Don’t on Tests, New Study Finds.

Here were the ones I cooked up, the one with the star is the one I sent in:

  • Study finds military better at nation breaking than nation building.
  • Study finds similarly hued grass on the other side.
  • Study finds other grasses to be greener.
  • Study finds a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
  • Study finds birds in the bush to be overrated.
  • Study finds avians eschew congregating amongst similarly feathered cohort.
  • Study concludes ‘more study needed’ into whether more studies are needed.*

What studies would you suggest?