Comments on: How Not to Submit a Query http://waltshiel.com/2010/02/15/how-not-to-submit-a-query/ Walt Shiel commentary on writing, books, and publishing Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:30:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: How NOT to submit a query letter (via View from the Publishing Trenches) http://waltshiel.com/2010/02/15/how-not-to-submit-a-query/#comment-1542 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:23:56 +0000 http://waltshiel.com/?p=1057#comment-1542 [...] How Not to Submit a Query « View From the Publishing Trenches. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged freelance writing. Bookmark the permalink. Post [...]

]]> By: L. Diane Wolfe http://waltshiel.com/2010/02/15/how-not-to-submit-a-query/#comment-1484 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:24:27 +0000 http://waltshiel.com/?p=1057#comment-1484 I know the website Read ‘Em & Weep displays rejection letters. It’s pretty funny as well.

Fewer than 1 in 20? Okay, don’t feel so bad. Feel average now!

]]> By: Walt Shiel http://waltshiel.com/2010/02/15/how-not-to-submit-a-query/#comment-1468 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:34:38 +0000 http://waltshiel.com/?p=1057#comment-1468 Sometimes I think we should just stop accepting queries. But then I think that, someday, a gem we really want to publish might pop up. Hasn’t happened yet, though.

To date, maybe one in twenty show any evidence of having read our submission guidelines. And even fewer actually follow them.

Seems to me I’ve seen a book, some years ago, of collected query letters — the good, the bad, and the truly ugly. But I don’t recall who wrote it or when.

]]> By: L. Diane Wolfe http://waltshiel.com/2010/02/15/how-not-to-submit-a-query/#comment-1465 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:50:17 +0000 http://waltshiel.com/?p=1057#comment-1465 LOL!
You get REAL query letters?
Hey, bad is better than no query letter at all.

I’d still love to see a book that gathers some of the best (rather, worst) queries received by publishers. Wouldn’t you?

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