5 Questions To Ask About Every Article Idea

This is a guest post by Mridu Khullar. I know a good idea when I see one. So should you. Dump those time-tested ideas you’re sending off to editors every other day, and find ideas that will get you the assignment each time, every time. How do you know …

Are You Sure Your Query Is Ready?

One magazine. Hundreds of writers. Thousands of queries. One editor. One desktop … and a trashcan that appears to be incredibly, almost unimaginably deep. Where exactly will your submission go? It has all the makings of an editor’s nightmare. Stacks …

Please The Editor: Make A Sale

This is a guest post by Beth Fowler. Have you ever thought that editor should appear in your thesaurus under devil somewhere between Beelzebub and fiend? I felt that way until I become one…an editor, that is. My job, like every editor’s job, was to acq …

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

This is a guest post by Jenna Glatzer. You finally broke into a market you’d been dying to break into. Some Big Magazine has hired you to write an 800-word article for their front-of-the-book, and you’re ecstatic! You work hard as can be, proofread lik …