{"id":122,"date":"2013-06-24T04:20:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T04:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iconlearnitonline.com\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2013-06-24T04:21:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T04:21:46","slug":"writing-a-great-query-letter-for-getting-your-book-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iconlearnitonline.com\/blog\/writing-a-great-query-letter-for-getting-your-book-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing a Great Query Letter for Getting Your Book Published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you are a writer who has already written his\/her first book and now looking for some good publishers or their book, then the first step you should take is to write and send <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iconlearnitonline.com\/blog\/letter\/query-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>query letters<\/strong><\/a> addressing it to a literary agent or an editor at a publishing house interested enough in your book and willing to sign you as a client, and, hopefully offers you a great sum of advance money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>A successful query letter has the following characteristics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ends in a single page \u2014 never longer<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No mistakes \u2014 typing, spelling, punctuation, and grammar should be perfect<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gets to the point directly<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Written on a quality paper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Positive tone and style<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a writer who has already written his\/her first book and now looking for some good publishers or their book, then the first step you should take is to write and send query letters addressing it to a literary agent or an editor at a publishing house interested enough in your book and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-query-letter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iconlearnitonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iconlearnitonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iconlearnitonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iconlearnitonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iconlearnitonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iconlearnitonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/www.iconlearnitonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iconlearnitonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iconlearnitonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iconlearnitonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}