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| Author | Message |
| Metro Writer | Posted – 4/23/2007 3:37:00 PM | show profile Has anyone successfully pitched any stories to Cookie? |
| Leona Caduda | Posted – 4/24/2007 9:26:46 AM | show profile | email poster Yes to Miranda Crowell; she edits Smart Cookie. She went back and forth with the idea, then finally accepted it. She was easy to work with and I was paid promptly. Let me know if you have any other Qs. Good Luck. |
| Metro Writer | Posted – 4/24/2007 9:49:32 AM | show profile Thanks, Leona. |
| HisGirlFriday | Posted – 4/24/2007 10:05:02 AM | show profile just thinking about pitching them too What do you think for a news/feature/trend kind of story - It's kind of one of those "new spin on the evergreen story." (I see Jenny Rosenstrach as features editor on the masthead. ) (Congrats on the assignment.) |
| Metro Writer | Posted – 4/24/2007 10:21:34 AM | show profile I, for one, am truly impressed with this magazine. This is one magazine for upscale households that has substance as well as style, and it cuts through income levels and spending preferences. I thought it would be all about pushing expensive items on parents and children, but there are some really useful articles, such as packaging healthy meals with enthusiasm and flair so your kids will want to eat them. The recent article on accessories holds true for Kohls shoppers as well as people who can afford David Yurman. |
| HisGirlFriday | Posted – 4/26/2007 5:31:18 PM | show profile Leona; I just sent my pitch in via email - If you don't mind me asking, how long did it take for you to hear back? In a fit of utter absurdity, I was refreshing my email every 20 minutes on the day I sent it ... :) |
| ZooZooB | Posted – 4/26/2007 10:05:43 PM | show profile I sent in an essay ...and didn't hear anything for a month. It was something I felt they would've nibbled on, matched tone of other essays I'd seen and was about different aspect of family life than I usually see. However, when I emailed to ask about status, I got an email back right away saying "we don't have the pages to consider publishing your essay at this time." Leona, if I can ask, what type of piece did you get in Cookie? Topic? Thanks! I agree it seems like a promising market. |
| jemscout | Posted – 5/4/2007 2:39:33 PM | show profile | email poster Who do you pitch the essays to? I have one that might work -- and did you write the whole thing first, or just a synopsis? |
| ZooZooB | Posted – 5/4/2007 9:36:01 PM | show profile essay pitch I pitched it to Anna Nordberg and I had whole essay written (it had gotten very good rejection at O, was too parenting-oriented for them). In the pitch I excerpted a portion but I paste below in email. Good luck. I also pitched same essay to Babble.com. I heard good things about them, that they were hungry for content. Got a rejection within two hours! I wondered how they even looked at it. |
| kit | Posted – 6/11/2007 5:29:40 PM | show profile | email poster Cookie submission info? Hi, I've sent two essays to Anna Nordberg and never even gotten a generic rejection note. This was months ago. ZooZooB, do you have Anna Nordberg's current email and/or any other advice for getting through at Cookie? ------ kit |
| HisGirlFriday | Posted – 6/11/2007 10:23:27 PM | show profile Hey Zoo zoo - I've got that time beat! I had an essay rejected by Vegetarian Times in - I swear to God - 7 minutes. :) |
| FeaturesGal | Posted – 6/11/2007 11:10:09 PM | show profile I've heard some pretty negative things regarding Babble from a photographer friend of mine... |
| Metro Writer | Posted – 6/12/2007 2:15:13 PM | show profile I also pitched to Anna and got no response. This was after calling to make sure I would direct my e-mail to the right editor. Not to single out anyone, but how busy can editors be? Yes, they get a lot of e-mails and perhaps even snail mail. Yes, they have meetings to attendd. No, they don't have as much support staff as in the past. But, let's put things in perspective. We're busy, too! Writing is not a nice little hobby we engage in for a few hours a week. It's a business and it's frustrating not to get professional courtesy from people in our field. |
| janbrady1 | Posted – 6/12/2007 4:12:22 PM | show profile As an editor, I'm not making excuses here--I'm certainly embarrassed about how tardy I can be in responding to writers' pitches. But receiving and responding pitches is only one small part of our job, believe it or not. When I'm on deadline, when I have lineups and coverlines and edits due, and desksides with PR people, and brainstorming meetings for future issues and packages, and creating content for our website, and art meetings, and supervising junior staffers, and representing the magazine on TV and in other meetings, so on and so forth, sometimes the correspondence with writers falls to the wayside. I get many pitches each day both via e-mail and snail mail. There are so many little things to take care of that take up too much time. Again, not an excuse--just an explanation! |
| beenthere | Posted – 6/12/2007 8:26:15 PM | show profile Writers need to spend a closing week in an edit office to get a clue how busy editors actually. It'll be some of the best time you've ever spent, I guarantee. For example, why was my story cut? Gee, that advertiser finally came through and extra space got sold. Writers are completely ignorant of this kind of thing. Want a quick response? Figure out the downtime in the monthly schedule and send your pitch then. Otherwise, good luck receiving a response when the book is closing. Writers who understand the editing process and production schedule will become editors' best friends. |
| candylilacs | Posted – 6/12/2007 10:17:02 PM | show profile I'm a staff writer and I don't even respond to all my e-mail, yet I get mad when I don't get e-mail back from editors! See, I'm a hypocrite and I admit it. ------ http://www.mswritesguide.blogspot.com |
| ISR | Posted – 6/13/2007 8:47:39 AM | show profile AARP and Readers Digest reject my pitches within minutes! I follow up twice, in weeklong intervals, and sometimes have gotten an assignment with the 2nd follow up. |
| allisonbb | Posted – 4/8/2008 6:20:58 PM | show profile | email poster i am looking to pitch a product. do i need to write the story to get the product into cookie? i am an artist not a pr pro. any advice would be great. thanks. |
| sofisays | Posted – 4/8/2008 11:44:46 PM | show profile | email poster O ZooZooB- Did I read right O Magazine, as in Oprah? I thought they do not accept query letters and such. What am I missing here? If writers market says a pub does not accept unsolicited mss or pitch letters, is it true? What does the wise and savvy writer do, waste her time perfecting a pitch letter to a magazine that will not give her the time of day- or keep her eyes on magazines who cultivate freelance talent? Thanks! |
| write2rachel | Posted – 4/9/2008 2:45:41 PM | show profile I recently had some success with Cookie. I had pitched a total of four stories before one hit (insert your "Battleship" noise here). Don't think I ever got a response on the first one. The second one got a no, with a note saying they were working on something similar. The third also got a nice no, so I immediately re-pitched the fourth and they liked it. They obviously get a ton of pitches and stuff gets lost, so make sure you follow up once or twice. Good luck! ------ www.rachelcericola.com |
| magazinewriterextraordinare | Posted – 4/10/2008 2:32:11 AM | show profile What's up with Babble.com? Hi, someone mentioned some bad vibes from Babble. Does anyone know what that was all about? Would you recommend pitching to the editors there, or not? Waste of time? Bad pay? |
