- Andoy
On 2/2/06, Gabriel H. Mercado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
re pitching articles, my two cents: basically your work is your best pitch. Plus your rep, meaning how reliable you are churning out work. Writing ability would probably be only third. Pls. permit my pretentiousness for one second and allow me to give you (and anyone else who wants to write regularly) a better view :D. Editors run a schedule of monthly topics. PCmag had a security and entertainment issue, and a storage one for next month where I wrote for. If a PLUG representative can get in on any given publication's schedule of topics, you can fan it out to an available writer/expert, and pwede na siya maghanda for it at least a couple of weeks ahead.
So a perfect pitch to an editor would be: "Hey bro! I have an idea for your Security issue. It goes like this: yada yada yada." He'll then say, "Sounds good, can you make it blah yada blah?", you'll go "Sure! Better yet, I'll make it blah yada blah AND yada blah blah for a sidebar!". He'll then say, "Ok, 2,500 words end of the month?" - and that's it.
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