Writing Cover Letters

I seriously fucking hate writing cover-letters for short stories?What is the point? Are they going to acept your work based on the quality of the cover-letter that accpanies it? No, of course not. And why do editors want them? I suppose it signifies that you have put some effort into the submission package and therefore are more likely to be worthy of their attention. It might mean that yours is not a blind submission if you can call the editor by name and put their address somewhere other than on the envelope, but it probably does not. The problem is that you can auto-pilot a coverletter just as easily as you can the rest of the submission.

Note this site of templates for your literary submissions.
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