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TEASER General Thoughts with Lin Pardey
5 December 2023 · 1 min · 269 views · Bay of Islands
What this video covers
Two sailing magazine editors receive 50–80 unsolicited article queries per month and reject roughly 90 per cent of them.0:19 Editor Mark Pillsbury bought about 3 per cent of submissions outright, rising to 7 per cent when a piece had something distinctive to say; he sometimes replied to near-misses with specific revision suggestions or redirected writers whose style he liked towards different topics.0:44 Lin Pardey frames that rejection rate as no more daunting than the ratio of sailors who talk about cruising versus those who actually leave the dock.1:32 The remarks serve as a preamble to a fuller discussion of how to create and sell sailing stories — the mechanics of pitching, querying, and writing for the sailing press.
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