Reader Comments on The 5 Best, Surefire Ways to Break into <i>Yankee</i> from YankeeMagazine.com http://www.yankeemagazine.com/rss/index.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:15:09 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/writers-guidelines Vey helpful to folks like me. It would be nice to have a small section that has to do with "Off the Beaten Path" type stories for folks like me who can submit articles and pictures about other regions that the editors find interesting for their readers. Thanks for the "How to" though, helpful in many ways...Elvis Milic, Phoenix, AZ www.imagezs.net Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:01:34 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/writers-guidelines This article will be helpful as I expand my writing markets. The query information is expecially helpful not only for submission to Yankee but for all publications. Thank you for the tips and I hope we can do business soon. Dorothy E. Morris (note the email name is wrong above). Thanks Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:09:26 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/writers-guidelines Thanks for all the great tips. I have always been fascinated with Yankee over the years and love driving by our doorstep when we travel to Saratoga Springs, NY for our family reunion each summer. One of these days I'd love to stop in to say hello in person. I am a freelance photographer and would love to submit photos to Yankee. I have one particular shot that would be great for the Christmas issue or possible the cover, it's of a white fence with pineapples on the tops of the posts with red bows and swags. I used it as a Christmas card and everyone fell in love with the shot. It's shot on the diagonal. The contrast of red and white really make it pop and I was wondering if it would be possible to submit that one photo for your consideration for the Christmas edition or is it too late. I have a website at www.betterphoto.com?kathyinnh Kathy in NH. www.rcsradford@aol.com Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:09:43 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/writers-guidelines I am the photo editor for the magazine. Thanks so much for your interest in Yankee Magazine. We are already hard at work on our January/February issue and photographing year ahead stories as well for next autumn. Generally, we use images on the cover related to stories within the magazine and often these cover images are photographed on assignment for us. However, we do review work from professional photographers for possible stock and assignment work. Please check out our photography guidelines (see link below) for a little more information. Thanks again. http://www.yankeemagazine.com/contact/contactus/guidelines Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:08:04 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/writers-guidelines Excellent advice for having your work accepted, and read by Yankee magazine (and any publication, for that matter) by Mel Allen. Thank you, for posting this, Mel. Allow me to add my own top three basics of writing list. 1) Write what you would want to read. Ask yourself, "Would I want to read this?" I know this sounds simplistic, but if you aren't writing about a subject that you care passionately about, there's a good chance that your reader will recognize that fact, and not be very interested in reading it, either. 2) Write about what you know well. If you aren't too familiar with a certain subject that you intend to write about, then do research on it first, and write it later. With that new-found knowledge at hand that you can draw from, your writing will translate to your reader with much, more clarity. 3) Write, write and then write some more. From my experience in working with many writers what appears to be the biggest impediment for them is, they just can't seem to find the free time to finish what they have started writing. Even, if it's only for one hour each day, find the time to write, every day and then do so. The more you write, the better you will be at it, and the more work you'll actually complete. Any craftsman/woman improves with the act of doing what it is they want to do well, and so will you in the craft of writing. R. Jeffreys, Boston, MA Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:00:18 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/writers-guidelines I immediately thought, "Why would anyone want to -break into- Yankee and why is the editor telling them how??" lol Selling pre-press Almanac's to spies? Switching all the furniture around as a joke? Was it only my slippery mind or did anyone else see it that way? Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:58:31 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/writers-guidelines oops, I bet one of the surefire ways NOT to break in is NOT proofreading before submitting. Pardon my excessive apostrophe use in the previous comment. Am I in? :) (Darn, no capitalization at the beginning of this comment either.) Out. lol Nice blog, and the website is looking great! Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:03:55 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/writers-guidelines This article is just what I'm looking for. I moved to upstate NY about 2 1/2 years ago and try to get to the New England area on several day or weekend trips a month. Since I'm originally from the midwest most of New England is new to me, the scenery, the history there is nothing like it in the middle of the country. I'm starting a blog on a local website and would love to expand my writing to other publications. So thanks again for all the info, I'm sure it will be used in my other pursuits! Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Sun, 31 May 2009 14:43:39 +0100