mirror-magazine domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home3/lwbean/public_html/wordsonpageblog.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121minimalistix domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home3/lwbean/public_html/wordsonpageblog.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121Also, when I interviewed editors for The Renegade Writer’s Query Letters That Rock, they told me that they don’t like being told how long it will take for the writer to turn in an article. One of them said (I’m trying to remember the exact quote here): “If I assign you the article, *I’ll* tell you when I need it.”
Finally, if you say you can complete the article in X weeks but the editor would need it sooner, you’ve lost the sale. Why give the editor another chance to say no?
]]>I am wondering though, would you be willing to discuss what we should do with queries that go unanswered, especially the ones that ask for our rates? Those baffle and irritate me!
]]>I’d probably close with something like “I’d be delighted to get this article to you in the next two weeks.” Some sort of affirmative close that assumes I’ll get the assignment.
And you are so right – that editor is your first, and in many ways, your most important reader!
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