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Topic: Presenting good-looking clips
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| DixieDunbar | Posted – 1/13/2008 4:06:05 PM | show profile I'm embarrassed by my lack of technical savvy, but here goes... How does one email clean-looking clips to an editor? In my experience, a scanned document is hard to read. If you provide a link to a newspaper, you don't know how long the story will be there. If you provide your word document, it looks unprofessional. Snail mail seems antiquated. On other writers web sites I see pristine looking clips w/ no ads or page breaks. Often they've got the title of the publication as a heading and that title is in the official font/design of the publication. Is the publication supplying this kind of a document to the reader? I doubt it. Help! And thanks! |
| schmom717 | Posted – 1/20/2008 1:36:43 PM | show profile i think when it looks perfect -- you're talking about a link to a PDF. I sometimes give a link to the webpage where my article is still online - in archives - or you can link to your own website, where you can post clips and PDF files, hope this helps |
| ExpatJane | Posted – 1/22/2008 10:59:04 AM | show profile | email poster I agree that .pdf is probably the most pristine way. However, I'm green at this too. The one good thing about my editor is he sends his writers .pdf versions their articles in the paper. Of course, I'm saving mine for the time that I'll actually use them ;) My editor does this automatically, however, I think asking for it would be okay. ------ "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." - Chinese Proverb http://expatjane.blogspot.com |
| HisGirlFriday | Posted – 1/22/2008 1:07:14 PM | show profile I've never had an editor complain about clips in a word file. (Big name pubs and little guys too.) I do it all the time. I attatch them to my emails. I've done this in blind querys as well as to editors who know I'm sending stuff, too .... The only thing is that I only send one or two attatchments at at a time - that sometimes seems to keep them from getting bounced by spam filters .... You just want it to be legible and a good clip! :) |
| DixieDunbar | Posted – 1/22/2008 8:28:34 PM | show profile your word file? So, you're just sending them your own personal word document w/ the publication and date of print at top? Include the editors name? I assume you revise w/ any final edits the editor may have made, right? Thanks so much for your help w/ this! |
| jkdscribe | Posted – 1/22/2008 9:34:20 PM | show profile I've actually heard from some editors that they discourage using MS Word because they know the clips can be changed and/or edited before being submitted. In other words, it's a ways of saying your clip wasn't good enough so you (or someone) reworked it to make it presentable. Just my 2 cents. |
| peyton | Posted – 1/22/2008 11:48:02 PM | show profile do you send clips to editors who already know your work and have hired you before? |
| HisGirlFriday | Posted – 1/23/2008 11:03:24 AM | show profile No - it's not just my own word file from my computer - sorry should have clairified! I pull the story from Nexis or from the publication's web site, copy it and paste it into a word file and send it as an attatchment. Often the story appears with the same fonts as the publication and even photos. Even though I use Vista I have not had an editor tell me they had problems reading the story. I would also love to have pdfs made but just can't seem to find the time to do it. |
