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Date Posted: 11:47:50 10/18/05 Tue GMT-5
Author: DianeG
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Subject: Nitpicky question re cover letters

On another board I participate in occasionally, someone wanted a cover letter sample (for a short story submission).

There was more than one reply and one of the questions was about how to address the edtior in the salutation line.

I said that if you didn't know, or couldn't tell from the edtior's name whether the edtior was male or female, you could use Dear (given name smith) Smith. That doesn't give the person a "title" and so, perhaps the editor's nose would be out of joint. I don't want to offend any editors, but really, wouldn't an editor rather see his or her given and last names spelled correctly, even if there was no Mr. or Ms?

I'm also in favour of closing with "yours truly" and not something like sincerely.

What think ye?

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