My first How-to-Write an Email lesson plan from a place of grouchy tough love.
A decade of teaching high school English overlapped with thousands of book-related pitch emails: Please read my work. Please help me sell my book to a publisher. Please let me come on your show or podcast and talk about my work. Please, Mr. or Ms. Intern, pass this email on to your boss and don’t just immediately delete it.
Each email had to be just personal enough, just professional enough. It needed enough detail without running too long. The mechanics had to be perfect.
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