Thinking that I might have a hot story to
write about that would reveal something deeply wrong with current cosmological models, I first
queried California Institute of Technology cosmologist Kip S. Thorne, who assured me that the discrepancy was merely a problem in the current estimates of the age of the universe and that it would resolve itself in time with more data and better dating
techniques.
It takes you beyond the
query letter into more sophisticated sales
techniques such as simultaneous submissions and multiple
queries —
techniques that can gain you phenomenal results in freelance
writing.