What is a query letter?

What is a query letter? It is a letter that is used to make contact with an acquiring editor or publisher who might be interested in what you are looking to have published. This could be words or photographs, or both!

Acquiring editors and publishers are only going to give a query letter a matter of seconds to hook their attention. To make your letter successful, you have to hook your audience immediately and hold their attention.

I like to use two paragraphs of text and then break into bullet points with another paragraph to summarize my concepts.

At some point I will probably post a sample query letter. This is the letter than can get you published, or leave you in the rejected round file.

To make consistent sales, you need to master the art of writing compelling query letters.

Dodge