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Old 05-04-2015, 07:45 AM   #1
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Dear Mister Knopf: A Query Letter Short Story - [FREE]
Dear Mister Knopf: A Query Letter Short Story

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You wanna be a writer? You want to right the most relishing proze imaginable? (If you're an Indy writer, it is important to have a huge number of misspelled words. Using the wrong word also helps. After all, it's the reader's job to spot those errors! It's your job to write!)

Now it can be told: A completeeely free shirt story just for you, because after fixin' dinner for the kids, unpluggiN' that stopped-up toilett, and putting cream on that nasty rash that erupted in the most unwanted of places last night, you just gotta write. Why?

ANYONE CAN BE A WRITER.
YOU KNOW IT AND I KNOW IT.


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I heard that you publish important novels, so I wanted to send you my five novels featuring Benny Ratton, essppionage agent....You see, I just started writing novels last week and I’ve written these five novels all featuring Benny Ratton that I think you should publish.

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I heard that you publish important novels, so I wanted to send you my five novels featuring Benny Ratton, essppionage agent....You see, I just started writing novels last week and I’ve written these five novels all featuring Benny Ratton that I think you should publish.

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I heard that you publish important novels, so I wanted to send you my five novels featuring Benny Ratton, essppionage agent....You see, I just started writing novels last week and I’ve written these five novels all featuring Benny Ratton that I think you should publish.

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I heard that you publish importtant novels, so I wanted to send you my five novels featuring Benny Ratton, essppionage agent....You seee, I just started writting novels last weeek and I’ve written these five novels all featturing Benny Ratton that I think you should publihs.

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I heard that you publish importtant novels, so I wanted to send you my five novels featuring Benny Ratton, essppionage agent....You seee, I just started writting novels last weeek and I’ve written these five novels all featturing Benny Ratton that I think you should publihs.

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I heard that you publish importtant novels, so I wanted to send you my five novels featuring Benny Ratton, essppionage agent....You seee, I just started writting novels last weeek and I’ve written these five novels all featturing Benny Ratton that I think you should publihs.

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I was hoping you'd misspelled "Knopf" and meant Knopfler and that maybe you'd written a love letter to Mark Knopfler. Or maybe a love song...
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I was hoping you'd misspelled "Knopf" and meant Knopfler and that maybe you'd written a love letter to Mark Knopfler. Or maybe a love song...

Ah, yes, Dire Straits.

Age: The great equalizer.
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Ah, yes, Dire Straits.

Age: The great equalizer.
Not really. He can STILL play way better than me and I'm half...well, I'm younger than he is!!! He's a wonderful storyteller too. He tells an entire book's worth of a story in a simple song. He's done mafia stories, Westerns, love stories, ghost stories...
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You'd think with all the questions about query letters posted in the Writers' Forum, that no one bothered to read this short story ABOUT query letters! How bewilderingly strange!

Now EVERYONE (Yes, even you - don't hide) can be the first person on your block (or jail cell) to read this amazing story about.....


QUERY LETTERS


Dear Mister Knopf: A Query Letter Short Story

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I heard that you publish importtant novels, so I wanted to send you my five novels featuring Benny Ratton, essppionage agent....You seee, I just started writting novels last weeek and I’ve written these five novels all featturing Benny Ratton that I think you should publihs.

This humorous short story, in the form of a query letter, is available from Smashwords:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/540123
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Much easier to just keep publishing my own than bother with query letters!!!
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Dear Mister Knopf: A Query Letter Short Story

Donald R. Broyles

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I heard that you publish importtant novels, so I wanted to send you my five novels featuring Benny Ratton, essppionage agent....You seee, I just started writting novels last weeek and I’ve written these five novels all featturing Benny Ratton that I think you should publihs.

This humorous short story, in the form of a query letter, is available from Smashwords:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/540123
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