claiming RWA pro status in a query letter was tantamount to saying "I am unpublished *and* don't know much about the industry" unless there were the publication (or *really* good contest) credits to go with it.
YES. Frankly, people who have been published generally know better.
My favorite cover letters are the ones who say, "I am a published author with five books to my credit" but never tell me the titles of the books or the companies. Anywhere. So I google search the author and almost always, 99 times out of 100, the author was published by a crappy e-press.
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Date: 2006-04-05 08:33 pm (UTC)YES. Frankly, people who have been published generally know better.
My favorite cover letters are the ones who say, "I am a published author with five books to my credit" but never tell me the titles of the books or the companies. Anywhere. So I google search the author and almost always, 99 times out of 100, the author was published by a crappy e-press.
SIGH.