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Whether you're submitting your story over the internet or printing it and mailing it in, including a cover letter helps the editors keep tabs on your submission and remind them what it is about after reading other submissions. The cover letter should include your name and address, maybe your bio, as well as a quick look at the story.  The brief look at your story is not a summary. Rather, limit this to 25 words and quickly explain who the main character is and what the conflict is about. Address the letter to the editor by name. You can usually find the names of editors in the “About” sections of magazine websites or in books previously published. In case your submission is chosen, the editors may want to include a short bio about you, about 3 sentences long. To prevent them from having to do more work by asking you for a bio once they are ready to publish, furnish them with one in your cover letter. Keep this bio about your work, not your likes and dislikes. You may want to list where you live, work, and where else you have been published. If you've never been published, focus on your experience and education. Decorative fonts like script or cursive make your writing unprofessional and your words difficult to read. Since the industry standard is plain, clear fonts like Calibri and Times, your submission should reflect understanding of this. If you want to be taken seriously, be serious about your font. Also avoid creative font colors and varying sizes of font. No matter what writing style editors prefer, they all like to get stories that are polished--and that means proofreading. Also look at your story for awkward wording and redundancy to boost the story's appeal.  Take into account that many editors don't like to see overwriting. Paring down your extra adjectives and being conservative with adverbs can keep your language simple yet engaging.  One way to trim the fat from your writing is to use simple dialogue tags like “said” instead of flowery verbs like “uttered.” Write down or type up a list of where you send your stories and when. This way, if you send the same story to multiple magazines, it will be easy to figure out who to tell if your story gets accepted. You can't have your work published in more than one place at a time.  If you do submit the same story to different magazines at the same time, inform the editors in your cover letter that it is a “simultaneous submission” and assure them that you will inform them if your story is chosen elsewhere before they get to it. Some journals and magazines do not accept simultaneous submissions. Such magazines will sometimes automatically reject your story if this is the case. Read closely when you send in your story to make sure it is ok to send it to more than one place at the same time.
Write a cover letter. Write a brief bio about yourself. Avoid decorative fonts. Make sure you revise. Record where you submit.