I was beginning to feel a little ignored. I was beginning to wonder if maybe I hadn’t done a good enough job on my last assignment. I was beginning to think that maybe my new ideas were completely off the mark.
It’s been happening to a lot of us lately. Editors aren’t responding. Publications are folding. The future seems uncertain. The income is dwindling.
An editor I’ve worked with twice and who I’ve been pitching for months with no response, wrote to me today. “Sorry for being so unresponsive,” he wrote. “We’re so broke these days, it’s embarrassing.” How do I respond to queries and ideas in a situation like that, he asked.
I don’t know if there’s a lesson in this, except for that we need to remember that editors are people, too. People who right now, are insecure, losing jobs, facing layoffs, and struggling to survive just as we are.
Be kind to them. Reach out. And don’t forget to continue supporting and buying publications that you’ve benefited from.
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