Being enthusiastic and having a notebook full of wonderful ideas is one thing. Irritating the crap out of an editor by sending her a laundry list of thirty is quite another. While you may think that you’re giving the editor a good choice of articles that she can file away for later use, she’s probably […]
In my first year of freelancing, my querying habits went a little like this: send a query, finish the assignment, query another magazine, finish the assignment, and so on. When the assignment for the first magazine would be done, I’d neatly wrap it up, complete with thank you notes and meticulous records, and then concentrate […]
Like fashion and TV programming trends, where one color is “in” or “out” by seasons, the advice on how many pages a query letter should be also goes “in” and “out” by seasons. And like fashion and TV programming trends, this one’s something I just don’t understand. At the beginning of the Internet era, short, […]
