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Topic: NYT Modern Love & Daniel Jones
| Author | Message |
| Newsy | Posted – 1/4/2008 10:54:39 AM | show profile I have the email for Modern Love submissions, but does anyone have Danie Jones's email? I tried djones@nytimes.com, but it bounced back. Thanks! Also, for those who have been published in the column: How long before you heard back after you sent in your essay? |
| Village Gal | Posted – 1/4/2008 11:10:29 AM | show profile When I heard Daniel Jones speak, he indicated that he wants everyone to use the generic ML email. He is not a staffer at The Times. |
| Newsy | Posted – 1/9/2008 10:21:08 AM | show profile Thanks so much! |
| FeaturesGal | Posted – 1/10/2008 12:44:35 PM | show profile I have modernlove at nytimes dot com Have tried it several times, yet it ALWAYS bounces back. Is that the wrong email address? |
| pleiades | Posted – 1/10/2008 1:27:57 PM | show profile That's the address I used. You should get an automatic reply back. I've submitted twice. The first time I received an automatic reply, followed by a kind rejection a few weeks later. The second time I didn't receive anything. After waiting several weeks, I resubmitted, with a note apologizing if it was a double submission but explaining I had never received the automatic reply I thought I was supposed to get back. Daniel Jones responded and said they were having problems with that e-mail address and that he never received my first submission. (This was last spring.) So if you don't receive an automatic reply back, I'd resubmit. Good luck! |
| FeaturesGal | Posted – 1/10/2008 1:33:48 PM | show profile Hmm...this is odd. I do get an automatic reply-- but it says "technical details of permanent failure." Very odd.... |
| pleiades | Posted – 1/10/2008 1:50:05 PM | show profile Oh, something must be messed up then. This is the automatic reply I got: Thank you for writing to Modern Love at The New York Times. If you are sending a letter in response to a column, thank you for your feedback. Correspondence sent to this address for the writer of a particular column will be forwarded if appropriate. If you are submitting an essay for consideration, please allow 3-4 weeks for a response. If you don't hear from us within a month, you should assume we won't be using your essay. If you are seeking guidelines for submitting an essay to Modern Love, they appear below: The editors of Modern Love are interested in receiving deeply personal essays about contemporary relationships, marriage, dating, parenthood...any subject that might reasonably fit under the heading "Modern Love." Ideally, essays should spring from some central dilemma the writer has faced in his or her life. It helps if the situation has a contemporary edge, though this is not essential. Most important is that the writing be emotionally honest and the story be freshly and compellingly told. The best way to see the range of styles and subjects we'd like to publish is to read the column: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/features/style/fashionandstyle/ columns/modernlove/index.html A book of collected columns titled "Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit and Devotion" is also available at bookstores or at the NYTimes.com Store. -Send submissions to: modernlove@nytimes.com -Length: approx. 1500-2000 words -Please attach your essay as an ms-word compatible doc AND paste it into the body of the email. -No pseudonyms (including the author), composite characters or invented situations may be used. |
| candylilacs | Posted – 1/10/2008 2:56:55 PM | show profile Same here I applied, got the form e-mail and then a rejection a few weeks later. I was more than happy to get a rejection -- so many places don't even bother! Grrr! ------ http://www.mswritesguide.blogspot.com |
| deadline | Posted – 1/16/2008 5:51:14 PM | show profile I sent my essay via modern love email and Jones liked my essay and wrote back to me in about two months. I don't know if it will help to send it right to him since it seems like the good ones make their way to him anyway. But if you want his email, email me off the BB and I will share it with you. Good luck. |
| Village Gal | Posted – 1/17/2008 8:41:05 AM | show profile hear him speak on Feb 27 in NYC One more time, Jones does not want the pieces sent directly to him. When he spoke, he indicated that method screws up his ML filing system. I also had his personal email and he told me that as well. So use the generic ML addy. He is speaking again in NYC on a panel Feb 27. |
| Village Gal | Posted – 1/17/2008 8:42:11 AM | show profile hear him speak on Feb 27 One more time, Jones does not want the pieces sent directly to him. When he spoke, he indicated that method screws up his ML filing system. I also had his personal email and he told me that as well. So use the generic ML addy. He is speaking again in NYC on a panel Feb 27. |
| editchick | Posted – 3/3/2008 1:59:43 PM | show profile is the above info still relevant? just checking. thanks! |
| Village Gal | Posted – 3/3/2008 2:49:16 PM | show profile well, I did not go to hear him speak again but I don't think anything has changed. |
