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What NOT to do when soliciting a publisher

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If you don't edit and proofread your correspondence, check out what a publisher actually publishes, check out their websites and submission guidelines, what do you think your chances are? Here are just two examples of real emails that say more than I could preach.

 

(Group email listing every email in the Association of Canadian Publishers' directory in the "TO" box.)

 

Friday, October 27,200612:23 PM

Looking_for _a _publ isher.pdf

Looking for a publicher

 

                     

Estimable Sir

I wrote two books in informatics. I think that these are good and I send to you the cover, the contents

- and a paragraph from everyone. If you are interested, please answer to me for sending the entire fist form for every book. Everyone has a CD with the application programs, whose design was performed in the books. I trust in you, for helping me. See attachments. No viruses.

 

the authOr.

 

 

Thursday, October
16, 2008 3:22 AM

 

Subject:Good Book

 

Attachment: The Master's Stick.doc (908 KB)

 

Dear Literary Agent, Dear Publisher,

 

(His picture was inserted here)

 

My name is ___, and I am an Italian writer. It is an honour for me to send you a piece of my work entitled: "The Master's Stick". It consists of a collection of short stories and aphorisms,  based on the zen style, and it has already been published in Italy, obtaining a good number of sales.                                                     

 

If you are interested in my work, as I hope you are, you might like to know that a second volume of such work is already available and has not been published in Italy yet. It would be a pleasure for me to collaborate with you for our mutual economic and moral satisfaction.               

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Published Wednesday, June 10, 2009 3:00 PM by Bookpublishing101

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