Hi Bob and Brooks: Bob, your Illinois Midland in S Scale appeared in Model Railroad Planning 2004. A fine small track plan for any scale, and useful for letting the wider public know one can build in S without hand-laying track. Brooks, I agree with your comments totally. My first published article in a major magazine was my profile on the S Scale Workshop...an article that Bill Schaumburg at RMC jumped at. Since then I've written three more general interest articles for RMC, each time managing to mention that I model in S. Here in Canada, the magazine Canadian Railway Modeller has also published a feature about our group's S scale layout. I've had no problem pitching any of my ideas so far. Two things I've found. One, .it helps if you're associated with credible people in the hobby. My S scale association with the likes of Pete Moffett and Trevor Marshal made my initial approaches a whole lot easier I'm sure. Two, to quote Trevor... busy editors are more likely to pick the low-hanging fruit...meaning that in addition to finding a unique or original angle to write about, the more complete and correction free you can make your words, photos and drawings, the more likely they are to be published. Jim
From: shabbona_rr <[email protected]> Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Magazine interests To: [email protected] Received: Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 12:00 PM With the ILLINOIS MIDLAND article .... I demonstrated how that layout could be built with little effort using existing S scale off-the-shelf products and have a realistic operating theme. I even went so far as to show how it could be built with American Flyer components with no loss of operating (key word, there) realism, should someone desire to go that route. --- In [email protected], "bcgsteam" <bcgst...@...> wrote: > > ... > > The key is to provide articles that are of interest to the WIDEST POSSIBLE > NUMBER OF READERS. > My conversations with editors indicate they are ALWAYS eager to publish > quality articles that have unique and interesting content... I simply do not > believe that there is any prejudice against "S" by any of the major magazines > Happy modeling! > Brooks > > >Hobbies & Activities Zone: Find others who share your passions! Explore new >interests. Stay on top of your group activity without leaving the page you're on - Get the Yahoo! Toolbar now. Get great advice about dogs and cats. Visit the Dog & Cat Answers Center. Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
