Welcome to The Query Letter: How to Sell Article Ideas to Newspapers and Magazines. a work-shop-in-a-book that, as the title says, looks at how to sell your article ideas to newspapers and magazines. Unlike many other books on writing, this one makes no outlandish promises of instant riches or mega-success. Freelance writing can be a lucrative business or it can produce a decent, steady income. Sometimes it can be frustrating. It can also be personally rewarding. That is the nature of freelancing: it ebbs and flows. You need a plan to minimize the ebbs and maximize the flows. If you want to sell articles to newspapers and magazines you need to understand how to write and structure query letters. This book can help you do just that.
