Pitching the Editor

I have dealt with this writer and many of his cousins, as described in Randy Boyagoda’s More Soon: A Sampling of Electronic Correspondence with Magazine Editors , and—mark this, those of you who want to write for magazines—it doesn’t make an editor happy.

Randy, by the way, is spending some weeks here at the office continuing his research for the biography of Richard John Neuhaus he’s writing. He’s great fun to have around.

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