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Topic: Re-pitch after an editor leaves?
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| HisGirlFriday | Posted – 7/30/2007 9:08:10 PM | show profile Someone's post below has me thinking about this: I had a really bad experience with a particular editor at a magazine. The first story a horror show from start to finish (massive re-writes, botched communications, etc) I pitched some other ideas and was shot down. I really like the mag in general - it's a good fit with my personality. Now that editor is gone - do I re-pitch? Do I re-pitch the same ideas (perhaps with a caveat admitting they were shot down before, but asking whether times have changed?) Part of me wonders whether it is worth it because the other experience was so bad ... at the same time, if that person is gone, maybe it will be better? At the same time, maybe it's not them, it's me after all ... Hmmmm.... Thoughts? |
| writesonwater | Posted – 7/31/2007 12:09:24 AM | show profile | email poster If you like the magazine and you're willing to take the risk, I'd look a the odds. What are the odds that it will be a totally FUBAR deal again? If you think it was kind of flukish, and could have been tied to the editor, then go for it. Just leave yourself room to smile about it either way -- and resolve not to let your blood presure go through the roof. I cut ties with a magazine once, but it was rotten to the core: editor, publisher, everything -- they still owe me money, and had the nerve to ask me if I'd consider writing for them again. "Uh, no." |
| recovering_jersey_girl | Posted – 7/31/2007 10:20:27 AM | show profile >>Do I re-pitch the same ideas (perhaps with a caveat admitting they were shot down before, but asking whether times have changed?) Were they rejected or just not responded to? If it's the latter, I would reach out and mention that you already sent the idea(s), so apologies if they've already been discussed, but you didn't want them to fall through the cracks. If they were rejected, I might suggest tweaking the ideas a little before resending. I think the best way to go is to see if you can tie them to something that's timely now. |
| recovering_jersey_girl | Posted – 7/31/2007 10:20:35 AM | show profile >>Do I re-pitch the same ideas (perhaps with a caveat admitting they were shot down before, but asking whether times have changed?) Were they rejected or just not responded to? If it's the latter, I would reach out and mention that you already sent the idea(s), so apologies if they've already been discussed, but you didn't want them to fall through the cracks. If they were rejected, I might suggest tweaking the ideas a little before resending. I think the best way to go is to see if you can tie them to something that's timely now. |
| HisGirlFriday | Posted – 7/31/2007 3:27:35 PM | show profile Thanks, wow and jerseygirl. One idea was rejected as not being in the direction they wanted to go - skewing too young. Would it be a good idea to see if that direction has changed? The other idea was a personality-profile type story, which they said they "did not do." Then, in my latest issue, they had a personality profile type thing. :) .... So I could probably pitch those ideas again, right? |
