Cover Letter Writing Blues
http://www.writersblock.ca/summer1999/essay.htm

Van Nooten, Sylvia
Writer's Block
1999

Abstract:

Cover letters can mean the difference between your work being read and being tossed callously into the nearest wastebasket. Writing cover letters makes me feel stupid and small, as though I were begging some faceless entity (read: editor) to acknowledge my pitiful existence.