When you're using gmail to send equeries, should you use the default text encoding for outgoing messages (under settings) or "Unicode (UTF-8) encoding"?
First read this article, start to finish. If that doesn't answer your question, send the query letter to yourself both ways, see which result looks better, and use that one.
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Why waste your own time sending out queries when you can have a service do it for you? Really. One push of a button and they can get your query out to hundreds of agents at once. No staying up nights trying to figure out proper formatting. And you get the added bonus of getting your rejections faster, too.
Just a little holiday tip from me to you ...
I use plain text, myself.
It's going to take the entire evening to read that text.
Thank God, EE said we only had to read it and not understand it.
vkw
P.S. Where's the fun in doing that? Much better to send a query out one day at a time . . . .like pulling off a bandage.
Desperate to do anything other than work on my WiP last night, I read the linked article front to back (and then back to front). I've concluded with 97% certainty that it does not matter which type of formatting you use for emailed query letters. The content is the only thing that matters.
Now screenplays are an entirely different story...
Depends what the default is. If it's Unicode (UTF-8) then the question is moot.
Plain text is what you want.
Personally, I always use WTF-! encoding.
I failed binary code in college. :)
So, I just followed the second piece of EE's advice.
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