Cover Letter? Yes, no, maybe so?
Apr. 4th, 2006 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalI've finally managed to bang all the goofs, errors, and extraneous words from the revised, serial numbers shaved off copy of "Opening Shots", and am ready to send it off to Analog. Now I knwo there are at least a couple of published authors who read this blog, and I think at least one of them got their first sale to Analog. So I've questions:
1) Did you include a cover letter?
2) If so, what did you include in it? The one example I found for a speculative fiction cover letter seemed terribly short, bascially just giving the name of the tale and the word count. Is that really enough, or should I be just a trifle more verbose (no more than a short paragraph), given that the final word count clocks in at 19,975?
April 4, 2006
Editor
475 Park Ave. South, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Dear Mr. Schmidt:
Enclosed with this letter is the manuscript for “Opening Shots”, a 19,975 word long story; I am offering first North American serial rights.
Sincerely,
Royce Easton Day
1) Did you include a cover letter?
2) If so, what did you include in it? The one example I found for a speculative fiction cover letter seemed terribly short, bascially just giving the name of the tale and the word count. Is that really enough, or should I be just a trifle more verbose (no more than a short paragraph), given that the final word count clocks in at 19,975?
April 4, 2006
Editor
475 Park Ave. South, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Dear Mr. Schmidt:
Enclosed with this letter is the manuscript for “Opening Shots”, a 19,975 word long story; I am offering first North American serial rights.
Sincerely,
Royce Easton Day
