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6 Ways to Track Down a Magazine Editor

Harness your sleuthing skills to get your pitch into the right hands

Creating a winning magazine article idea and then articulating it into a knockout query letter is challenging enough for most writers, but all that hard work can be pointless if the pitch never reaches the right editor. Publications make it hard to contact them on purpose in order to weed out inexperienced wordsmiths, says Jodi Helmer,…