"A lot of us are reading them on Blackberries and iPhones and Treos and other smart phones where email formatting gets stripped away autmatically anyway, so you are wasting your efforts.Single-spacing for a five-page email sample is fine; usually agents and editors ask that manuscripts and partials be double-spaced so as to make it easy to mark-up and make notes.Indents are not necessary." . . . . . .