I can definitely attest to the query being more of a sales
letter than a short story.
Not exact matches
Note: In my experience, it takes me less time to indie publish a
short story than it does to look up a market, get the manuscript ready, do a cover
letter, do stamps and SASE, and go to the post office to mail it.
Rather
than give Rachael everything she asked for, which would require a much - longer article, I'm going to concentrate on the last part of her question / request, a query
letter for a book of ten
short stories.
As poet Elizabeth Bishop suggested in a
letter to James Merrill after reading his 1954 book,
Short Stories, perhaps rather
than offering any kind of criticism, I should simply say thank you.