The Writer's Guide to Queries, Pitches & Proposals

A writer's guide to expanding their markets and increasing sales by learning how to make the perfect pitch to magazines, publishers and corporations. It advises writers on how to draft a query letter, create a non-fiction or fiction book proposal, approach newspapers with a column or syndication idea, write effective screenwriting pitches, get corporate freelancing jobs, win a writing grant, and more. There are interviews with experts in a variety of fields, and dozens of examples of successful pitches, queries and proposals illustrate the text.