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The Future of Freelancing

Archives for May 25, 2008

May 25, 2008 By Michelle V. Rafter

Why freelance queries get rejected

Freelancers deal with rejection all the time and it doesn’t get any easier. The worst is when you’ve put your heart and soul into a query only to have an editor say “Thanks but no thanks,” or worse, not say anything at all. I got dumped recently for the first time in a while, and […]

Filed Under: Editors, Freelancing, Magazines, Writing Tagged With: freelance writing, Ron Kovach, The Writer, why queries get rejected, writing query letters

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