How to Write Attention-Grabbing Query & Cover Letters

So the Modern Maturity senior editor wrote this letter-writer's guidebook. Read it, learn from it, use its secrets to write queries that get accepted.

Discover:

• why boldness beats blandness every time
• how to rocket your query right past the slush pile
• how to make a big impression with a little cover letter
• the 10 basics you must have in your article query
• the 10 query blunders that can ruin your chances
• how to dramatize your novel with a query/synopsis package
• what a book proposal is, why you need it, and how to write it

As you publish more, your professional correspondence will increase. Whether the correspondence is a complaint to your editor, a celebrity interview request or anything else connected with your career, you'll make it ring with style and professionalism with this book.

Wood includes chapter-ending Question & Answer sections that clarify issues concerning the type of letter at hand. He's also packed the book with illustrative samples. You'll see many that are pure dynamite - and one real bomb.

Read this book and immediately begin to write energetic, masterly, persuasive letters. Keep editors hanging on your words. Make them eager to buy your work.

John Wood sees it with numbing regularity: the query letter that comes close to making a sale - until the writer makes some avoidable mistake and dooms the pitch to rejection. So the Modern Maturity senior editor wrote this letter-writer's guidebook. Read it, learn from it, use the secrets it reveals to write queries too customized, too exciting, too good to turn down. As you publish more, your professional correspondence will increase. With the help of this book, so will your letter-writing skill. Whether the missive is a complaint to your editor, a celebrity interview request or anything else connected with your career, you'll make it ring with style and professionalism. Wood includes chapter-ending Question & Answer sections that clarify issues concerning the type of letter at hand. He's also packed the book with illustrative samples. You'll see many that are pure dynamite - and one real bomb. Read this book and write energetic, masterly, persuasive letters. Keep editors hanging on your words. Make them eager to buy more.

After earning an MBA at the prestigious Kellogg School of Management, John Wood worked for several years in banking before joining Microsoft in 1991. Through hard work and determination, he ascended rapidly, earning coveted overseas assignments in Australia and China. While serving as Microsoft's Director of Business Development for the Greater China region, Wood decided to change his life's focus to help children break the cycle of poverty through the lifelong gift of education.