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The Renegade Writer's Query Letters That Rock: The Freelance Writer's Guide to Selling More Work Faster (The Renegade Writer's Freelance Writing series)

The Renegade Writer's Query Letters That Rock: The Freelance Writer's Guide to Selling More Work Faster (The Renegade Writer's Freelance Writing series)
By Diana Burrell, Linda Formichelli

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This convention-defying follow-up to The Renegade Writer ensures that freelance journalists get the assignments they want more quickly and for better pay with the right query letter. Successful freelancers and the editors that buy their work share their advice on pitching the perfect story with real examples that earned great assignments from major magazines. Fresh, spunky, and fun to read, this handbook favors a proven renegade approach that gets freelancers more work for more money in less time and with less stress.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #88020 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-11-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 202 pages

Editorial Reviews

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"New and experienced freelancers will benefit both from reading the queries themselves and the feedback from the editors who bought them."  —Kelly James-Enger, author, Six-Figure Freelancing


"Using the advice Linda and Diana share in their book, I've broken into markets such as Family Circle, Oxygen, SELF, and others."  —Jennifer Lawler, magazine writer and author, Dojo Wisdom series


"This book is a must for anyone who struggles with the frustrations of pitching. Not only will you see a wide range of successful approaches, all your burning query-letter questions will get answered in just under 200 lively pages."  —Charmian Christie, Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC) Guelph

About the Author

Diana Burrell is the coauthor of The Renegade Writer and the author of The Secrets of Successful Weight Loss. She regularly writes for Family Circle, Parenting, and The Writer. She lives in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Linda Formichelli is the coauthor of The Renegade Writer and the author of Becoming a Personal Trainer for Dummies, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting and Running a Coffee Bar, and Tools of Timekeeping. She regularly writes for Family Circle, Fitness, USA Weekend, and Writer's Digest. She lives in Concord, New Hampshire.

Customer Reviews

It Rocks!5
I would very much like to have tea with the authors; unfortunately I'll have to settle for reading their book. Friendly and experienced, Diana and Linda offer excellent advice for breaking into magazines and address many writerly concerns, such as how to deal with follow ups, a lack of clips, and editors who ignore you. The second part of the book is even more enlightening - real query letters complete with comments from the editors who received them. It's like having an editorial super-decoder ring at your service.

Courage to Write5
As a still unpublished writer I had high hopes for this follow up to the incredibly awesome Renegade Writer. I just finished reading it through and this book does not dissapoint! Between the Q&A's and the sample query letters I feel like I learned how to take my queries to the next level. Every writer should have this on their reference shelf!

This book rocks!5
The first half of this book provides valuable information about breaking into magazine markets. Although the tips are professional and ethical, Diana and Linda are quite funny while talking to us -- and that's the tone of this book. The authors are talking to their readers, not at their readers. I literally laughed out loud several times while reading. The second half of the book consists of samples of successful query letters and comments from the editors who gave the assignments to the writers. This information alone is worth the cost of the book a hundred times over.