Just as in any other profession, authors, whether indie or traditionally published, must sometimes craft either a cover letter or a query letter. In business, that cover letter may go with our resume, but for authors, we must write one each time we submit work to a contest, anthology, or literary publication.
For many, avoiding having to do that is one of the reasons they went indie in the first place. However, if you write short stories and submit them, you must also write cover letters, which are a form of the query letter.
But what goes into a cover letter?
For authors, cover letters are our resume, which makes writing them quite tricky. They are one page documents, usually in the body of an email. Sometimes, if the publication uses Submittable, you can copy and paste your cover letter into a template. They may ask for it to be…
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Thank you for the reblog! I’m on holiday this week, so it was a nice surprise ♥
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You’re very welcome, Connie! Hope you’re having a great holiday!
Hugz on owl wings! @v@ ❤
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