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My biggest problem then was not finding the time or sustaining an income, but getting editors to trust me with that first assignment. I needed to convince them to have confidence in my abilities despite the fact that I lived thousands of miles away from them. In India.  \nI knew that the only way I was going to get assignments was to write queries so irresistible that an editor immediately saw how good not only my ideas were, but how good I was. No editor was about to take a chance on a writer all the way across the globe unless she saw writing ability, unique ideas, and most of all, dependability.  \nA lot relied on the queries I wrote. So I wrote the very best.  \nThese queries got me into TIME, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Ms., Global Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Elle, Glamour, Vogue, Marie Claire, Self, and many more.  \nIn the pages that follow, I’m going to share some of those query letters with you as well as brief introductions to each with the backstory and my view on why they sold.  \nMy wish for you is that this book helps you achieve your freelance writing dreams. May your ideas never go out of vogue!  \nHappy Querying! Mridu  \nC H E C K U S O U T A T W W W . T H E I N T E R N A T I O N A L F R E E L A N C E R . C O M  \n1. TIME  \nTHE BACKSTORY:  \nI had just returned to India after a year in the US when I got in touch with the India bureau chief of Time. The magazine had recently had a few staff changes and I met the editor for a drink and we discussed some ideas. I’d written for her a couple of times by the time I sent this idea through and was, in fact, at this point, one of her go-to writers. As you can see, the pitch is fairly informal because of this reason, at least in the greeting.  \nPUBLISHED PIECE:  \nIn India, Banking on the ‘Morning After’ Pill:  \n[http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0](http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0),8599,1991879,00 . html  \nC H E C K U S O U T A T W W W . T H E I N T E R N A T I O N A L F R E E L A N C E R . C O M  \ntime  \nDEAR EDITOR,  \nHow ’ ve you been? Hope life and India ’ s treating you well.  \nTwo stories for you this afternoon . Let me know if any of them interest you .  \n1. While the West celebrates the 50th anniversary of the pill , in India it ’ s been a largely different story. Over the last fifty years , as sexual freedoms for women have remained curtailed , the pill has added to the responsibility of women to be solely responsible for birth control. The National Family Health Survey-3 statistics show that only 49 percent of Indian women use modern contraception methods , and of these 49 percent , only 3 percent are on the pill. Further , the poor Indian woman is not a good candidate for the pill—she is often malnourished and anemic , and has low BMI.  \nIn contrast , in the last ten years in urban India , the use of over-the-counter morning-after contraception has skyrocketed , and is often used by young women in lieu of the pill. Around 200 , 000 units of C ip la ’ s i-pill have been sold every month since its launch in 2007. The long-term effects of overuse of the morning-after pill are still unclear , but doctors worry that it could replace the condom , leading to the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.  \n[ Second idea ] Let me know what you think about these ideas , [ Editor ] . Thanks , and looking forward to working wth you again .  \nCheers ,  \nMridu  \n2. MS.  \nTHE BACKSTORY:  \nI’d written for Ms. Magazine once before I sent my editor this story idea. I was in the US in 2008 and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and other LGBT issues were getting a lot of play after President Obama’s first election. LGBT rights were not something I’d looked into before as a writer because not bein","cbCaivPJ6ii4COGk","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivPJ6ii4COGk","pdf",704557,25,"English","# TIME\n## Backstory\n## Published piece\n## Query letter\n# MS.\n## Backstory\n## Published piece\n## Query letter","[{\"question\":\"What is the core strategy for writing query letters that get editors to trust you?\",\"answer\":\"Queries must be irresistible, showing strong ideas, solid writing ability, and dependability. 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