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 If you have an unpublished manuscript, do not mail it out on an unsolicited basis. At least as concerns book manuscripts, one should put together a
 query letter summarizing the contents and ask an editor to request all or part of the manuscript. One good book on this topic is by literary agent
 Jeff Herman(Hermann?)"The Insider's Guide to Publishers". He tells how to
 write a query letter and tells you how to target editors by their
 subject matter specialties, such as sports or cookbooks. He also has a bit to say about literary agents such as himself.

 Another good book is "The Writer's Guide to Query Letters",
 by Gordon Burgett. He has a lot of sample queries for both
 books and magazine articles. Both of these books are put out
 by Prima Press or Publishing, which I've noticed seems to put out
 a number of books  for frelance writers.

 If anyone else has comments, suggestions on other books not mentioned above,
 I'd like to hear from you on this bulletin board. I have a particular
 interest in travel writing and publishing.


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