How Do You Write A Query Letter For A Magazine?
To write an article for a magazine as a freelance writer, you need to write a query letter. There are a few simple practices to keep query letters professional. Devise a list of magazines that would be interested in your article. Find the name of the appropriate editor and the address you mail query letters to. Look at the magazine’s website for their query submission guidelines. Most require you include a SASE (self addressed stamped envelope). If you don’t write you query letters according to the magazine’s standards, your letter will be tossed out before it’s even read. There is a book published every year with 1000’s of magazine’s editors information, and their guidelines, plus tips on breaking in the the magazine: see the resources at the end of this article. Buy some issues of the magazines you are submitting to if you aren’t already familiar to them. It is important to the editors that their contributing authors write in the style of the magazine, as to not confuse their readers
