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GEP Podcast #4 "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?" -- John Wooden   Great Escape Radio Episode 4: Insight into Query Letters What is a query letter?  It is the e-mail you send to pitch your story ideas to an editor – and, it is one of the most important parts of travel writing.    When you pitch your ideas, there’s a big pool of freelancers out there who you are competing with, but there are very few of them who do query letters correctly.  People who follow the advice of Great Escape Publishing’s programs land in that very small percentage of people who do it right. Kyle Wagner started as a food critic and later moved into travel writing.  Eventually she became the travel editor for the Denver Post where she spent over 10 years.  Today she is freelancing and loving life.  Here are Kyle’s dos and don’ts about query letters from an editor’s point of view: Editors get a lot of queries so the subject line is important.  You want to grab the editor’s attention righ