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Topic: Response times
| Author | Message |
| ItsAMysteryNY | Posted – 9/5/2006 9:08:14 AM | show profile | email poster Does anyone know how long it generally takes to get a response to a query from Daisy Chan at Redbook? Also Genevieve Field at Glamour. |
| splishsplash | Posted – 9/5/2006 10:41:33 AM | show profile I've pitched Daisy Chan two or three times and never received a response. Have received a response from another ed there (can't remember who). Never queried Genevieve. |
| Newsy | Posted – 9/5/2006 11:15:54 AM | show profile Funny you should post this. I have queries in to both Daisy and Genevieve and haven't heard anything. Did you snail or email? |
| grammarqueen | Posted – 9/5/2006 2:11:31 PM | show profile never heard back... Never heard back from Daisy on multiple queries... Never pitched Genevieve. -GQ |
| ItsAMysteryNY | Posted – 9/6/2006 8:41:01 AM | show profile | email poster I emailed both. I actually did get a "please send it" from GF, nada from Daisy Chan (yet) I guess it's safe to simultaneously submit elsewhere- EVEN to those who say "no simultaneous submissions". How are we supposed to try to pay bills? |
| Stressed | Posted – 9/6/2006 9:22:45 AM | show profile That?s odd because Daisy has always been one of my better Eds for replying to pitches and queries, tho I haven?t been in contact with her lately. Perhaps there is some team shuffling going on there? |
| ItsAMysteryNY | Posted – 9/6/2006 10:07:06 AM | show profile How long does she usually take? Maybe things just slowed up because it was summer.... |
| dragonrider | Posted – 9/25/2006 11:43:09 AM | show profile I can't even find a phone number to reach a voice directly. I keep getting general mailbox messages. Does anyone have a direct number for anyone there? I also am waiting on feedback from Daisy. |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 9/25/2006 12:49:00 PM | show profile It's a pretty silly business practice to prepare a highly customized proposal and then send it to only one buyer and let him take as much time as he wants to respond. My personal philosophy is to regard magazine guidelines (which, honesly, I hardly ever read) as no more than suggestions. In reality, I just take whatever approach I think will be most effective and beneficial to me. --I guess it's safe to simultaneously submit elsewhere- EVEN to those who say "no simultaneous submissions". How are we supposed to try to pay bills?-- |
| Neo | Posted – 9/25/2006 1:00:06 PM | show profile | email poster A woman I met at Glamour, who holds workshops and seminars in freelance writing, said that one should never simultaneously submit. One should wait two weeks, follow up with an e-mail, and if you don't hear back soon after, feel free to send the item elsewhere. That's pretty reasonable, I think, though it can get frustrating waiting to hear. I heard back from Genevieve within a month or so. I think that's the relative response time if she's interested, and never if she's not. (Most people never respond if they're not interested at all, though often online publishers resond immediately if they're not interested and take longer if they're considering your work.) |
| pleiades | Posted – 9/25/2006 1:22:57 PM | show profile Definitely do what works best for you but as an editor, I found it highly frustrating when I decided to buy something only to discover that the writer had since sold it elsewhere. I guess it depends on the magazine but I would have at least appreciated a "Just-wanted-to-let-you-know-that-X-purchased-my-article-on-X" e-mail. |
| nellie bly | Posted – 9/25/2006 1:53:38 PM | show profile < I think this person's advice is very old school. Have to agree with dribbledrive. I do multiple submissions all the time. In fact, just sent one (er, I mean three). Given the spiralling number of no responses to pitches, I can't afford the luxury of waiting 2 weeks-one month. Since email pitches became the norm and their email address posted on web sites such as mb for all to see, I think editors in-boxes are inundated and theyre unlikely to reply to every one. Especially when you're talking about major consumr mags. It's a numbers game and the numbers are boggling... Only exception: I would never do multiple submissions if it's a magazine for which I do steady work. |
| nellie bly | Posted – 9/25/2006 1:55:10 PM | show profile hmmm, don't know why it didnt paste. Here's the advice from previous post was old school: "A woman I met at Glamour, who holds workshops and seminars in freelance writing, said that one should never simultaneously submit. One should wait two weeks, follow up with an e-mail, and if you don't hear back soon after, feel free to send the item elsewhere. That's pretty reasonable, I think, though it can get frustrating waiting to hear." |
| depietrowriter | Posted – 9/25/2006 2:38:19 PM | show profile I pitched Redbook, can't remember which editor. They resonded pretty quick in about 4 weeks. I got a send it in on spec, but they ended up passing on the story. I 100 percent agree with dribble, I always send multiple submissions, unless it is a local magazine I have written for several times. Maybe my stories are not that great because in 8 years I have never had two editors want the same story. So it has nver been a problem. |
| Neo | Posted – 9/25/2006 5:03:36 PM | show profile The exact advice I got about submitting simultaneously was that if both periodicals accept your pitch, "you're in trouble." But on the flip side, you want to get your work sold somewhere soon. Use your best judgment. |
