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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)
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Product Description
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #242734 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
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
Good reference, but not a bible.
I have these two ladies' first book and I really enjoyed it, so I snapped this one up quickly. I wasn't an enthused about this book though. The sample letters are great, as are the comments from editors and writers alike. The problem is that it's all over the map. Granted, they want to appeal to everyone across the board, but the result here is that it just skims along the surface and doesn't really make itself invaluable.
Personally, I was hoping to help on writing queries. It gives us that in the form of an FAQ, but they're very basic questions. Helpful, but simple. As for the letters, there is only one that really applies to beginners, and the rest are by writers who have clips and other writing experience. For a beginner starting out, this creates a feeling of "how am I supposed to get published with no clips?" It would have been much more useful to multiple letters that appeal to each level of freelancer who would be reading this book, and it would have been nice to have a handful of queries written by writers just starting out.
Overall it's a cool reference, but it's not something I'd say you need on your shelf... especially if you're already comfortable writing your queries.
I highly recommend the authors' other book though: [ASIN:1933338008 The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success (The Renegade Writer's Freelance Writing series)]]
Writing a query letter, read this first
I wish I had this book years ago. I had to learn the hard way by sending out queries and then reading the comments from editors. I learned a lot from reading the queries in this book, and I've been writing query letters for a long time. If you don't buy the book, then do yourself a favor and at least skim through it at the library. If you get one thing out of it, it will save you time and agony later. Excellent book!
Query Letters that Rock
Too general--not enough specific informnation on "how to write a query" The book How to Write Attention Grabbing Query & Cover Letters was much more effective.
