QUERY

Letter to a publisher, perhaps

• Who?, e.g.

• Who? or Where?

• Ask

• Ask (about)

• Author's letter to an editor

• Database input

• Editor's in-box item

• Express doubt about

• Freelancer's proposal

• Look into

• Magazine writer's proposal

• Proposal of a kind

• Question

• Request for database records

• Search engine input

• Search engine request

• Seek information from

• Sound out

• Writer-to-editor initial contact

• An instance of questioning