If you want a business to carry your product, publish your writing or consider your proposal, you'll need to write a submission letter -- often called a query letter. These business letters should ...

Recently, funny things have been happening in my slush pile. I find myself receiving well-written, correctly formatted, professional-looking query letters from bad writers. Imagine my chagrin: one ...

MetalSucks will receive approximately 2,856,937 query e-mails in the time it takes me to type this sentence. I’m sure it’s the same for every major metal media outlet and every metal record label with ...

Completing an article for an academic journal is an impressive accomplishment, but don't turn off your computer yet. You still have to write a cover letter to accompany it. Part query letter, part ...