Comments on: Developing The Perfect Pitch

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 05 May 2011 16:27:21 +0000

Some good advice here. I often tend to do things my way to make the article unique. Has worked good so far for me.

By: Amanya

Amanya — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 07:26:33 +0000

It always surprises me how much more difficult it seems to write a good cover letter/email, compared to writing the actual article. my website :discount watches .-= Amanya´s last blog post: ceramic white watches J12 33mm H0967 =-.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:02:34 +0000

It always surprises me how much more difficult it seems to write a good cover email

By: Dave and Deb

Dave and Deb — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:09:18 +0000

Excellent advice. Read read read is very good common sense information that I don’t think people follow. I want to send more articles in from my travels right now, but I haven’t had the time to research the publications that I want to send to, so I am holding off until I have the time to really read their archives. I would hate to look foolish by sending in something that doesn’t suit their content or has already been written about recently.
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By: Margo

Margo — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:29:16 +0000

As an editor of a well paying print magazine, I was always amazed at how many submissions weren’t appropriate and made it clear the writer hadn’t bothered to look at the publication. Since we published mostly essays, we looked at things on spec – and it is much more time consuming to read an entire article than a cover letter. Anything a writer can do to make an editor’s job easy is always much appreciated. For instance many writers also ignored preferences for format (codes can get wonky in a Word doc unless saved as RTF) – On certain days I swear I think I accepted something just because a writer took special care and got that right. Great advice! PS -I think the whole thing of having to spend more time writing cover letters than actually writing is kind of sad

By: Marcia Frost

Marcia Frost — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:57:01 +0000

Good tips. I limit myself to pitching only one or to print magazines a month because I have found too often in the last two years that I spend time on a pitch, discuss details with the editor (sometimes even get a contract) and the magazine puts a freeze on freelancing or even folds.

I will continue to do occasional work for print, but my guaranteed income is coming from online.

Marcia
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By: JoAnna

JoAnna — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:09:33 +0000

As much as I love writing for print, I’ve found that online publications are more receptive for pitches simply because there it’s a lot easier to publish more content. It’s easy for quality to falter online, so I actually think a strong, quality pitch to an online editor is much more likely to be well-received.
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By: Maria Staal

Maria Staal — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:29:02 +0000

Interesting post with some great advice. It always surprises me how much more difficult it seems to write a good cover letter/email, compared to writing the actual article.
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By: Abbie

Abbie — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:55:41 +0000

Great advice, thanks!

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