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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
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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,