Tag: pitching
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Successful Science Article Pitches
Article and book pitches — both successful and unsuccessful — can give you a small insight into an editor’s selection process and the sales-side of a writer’s mind, as well as help you learn to write more effectively. As such I’ve started to collect sites featuring proposals and pitches. A recent addition to this list…
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This American Life on Proposals and Pitches
As a way to increase the quality of the many submissions they receive, This American Life staff offer some excellent tips on writing pitches. They go further, presenting four pitches that made it on air, describing why they succeeded: Each of these stories is a story in the most traditional sense: there are characters in some…
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(Un)Successful Assignment Proposals
I could/should have included this in my previous post on Baum, but I believe these merit separate mention: Successful assignment proposals for publications such as Playboy, Rolling Stone and The New York Times. Unsuccessful assignment proposals for Gourmet, The New Yorker, and more. As Jason points out, New Yorker editor John Bennet called Baum’s proposal for a story…