How to get an article published

An informative and amusing article from my agent Wendy Keller.

In the early days of my journalism career, I was co-publisher of a small magazine in Arizona. In my early 20s, back when I still knew everything, I was shocked at the swill people would send us in hopes of getting our valuable print space. (That is, the space for words in between pages of ads). To comfort these hopeful misinformed souls, I sent them a curt form letter telling them that our magazine focused on issues of importance to young people living in the state of Arizona, and that their proposed content on AARP vacations or the best pancake houses in Utah did not match our editorial vision.

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