How not to pitch

From time to time I get emails from people asking me about the best way to pitch stories to magazines. As it turns out, there are already many excellent pitching guides on the Internet. For my money, the best and most practical is Jennifer Kahn’s,which I saw atGangrey. I could quibble a little with the fact that Kahn wants the writer to bear 100 percent of the burden for a successful pitch. Ater all, you can’t eliminate all risk from a story proposal. Sometimes it’s just the job of an editor...