Hello fellow writers,
After years of tinkering with content provider websites and low-pay publishers, I am ready to leap into writing as a serious full-time career. I have some great ideas for a few magazines that I have researched as ideal targets. The issue that continues to hold me back is sources.
I would like to know what other writers do when they compose a killer query. To assure the article is everything it promises to be, do you contact sources before sending a query? I'm assuming that writers win big kudos when they can say that so-and-so expert from big-name-organization will be quoted within the article.
How do potential sources respond when writers contact them with requests to be quoted in an article that has a better chance of being a rejected query than a published article? And if so, where (other than individual and business websites) can I find sources who may be contacted?
Thank you and Merry Christmas!
After years of tinkering with content provider websites and low-pay publishers, I am ready to leap into writing as a serious full-time career. I have some great ideas for a few magazines that I have researched as ideal targets. The issue that continues to hold me back is sources.
I would like to know what other writers do when they compose a killer query. To assure the article is everything it promises to be, do you contact sources before sending a query? I'm assuming that writers win big kudos when they can say that so-and-so expert from big-name-organization will be quoted within the article.
How do potential sources respond when writers contact them with requests to be quoted in an article that has a better chance of being a rejected query than a published article? And if so, where (other than individual and business websites) can I find sources who may be contacted?
Thank you and Merry Christmas!