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Market Round-Up February 2007

© Jodi M. Webb – All Rights Reserved

 

In December I began participating in my local library’s fundraiser by creating altered books for an upcoming auction. Check out the project’s website Outside the Margins: Making Altered Books at http://bookarts.blogspot.com/index.html. I decided to try and kill two birds with one stone: help the library and write an article about my experience. I had no idea there were so many magazines dedicated, not to crafts in general, but specifically to paper crafts. It seems no matter what your passion or hobby you can find a magazine about it and hopefully turn your knowledge into a paying assignment. Since not everyone reading today is working on a paper craft, I thought I’d dedicate this month’s column to magazines featuring something many of us are passionate about: beverages.

You can pick this first magazine up at coffeehouses throughout the country. Naturally, many of its pieces are about coffee. But the magazine is for that quirky bunch that live in coffeehouses and they’ve got more on their minds than coffee: tattoos, the Internet, saving the environment. Tell the editors why your non-coffee topic would be interesting to coffee-lovers.

Coffeehouse Digest

Writer’s Guidelines:

http://coffeehousedigest.com/guidelines

Editorial Calendar:

http://coffeehousedigest.com/editorial_calendar 

This magazine is an equal opportunity drinker: cocktails, wine, coffee, just about anything beverage qualifies. So pick your favorite liquid and find a person, place, product, or process related to it as your article’s focus. Articles range from 200 to 2,500 words.

Imbibe

http://www.imbibemagazine.com 

Request writer’s guidelines at editorial@imbibemagazine.com 

The following magazines are open to the world of tea drinkers, past and present. For them tea isn’t only a beverage; it’s a regimented social event with a long and colorful past. Their articles seem to cover everything in the tea world: book reviews, recipes, historical pieces, museums, tea shops, products. But neither has their guidelines available on their website, instead you have to request them.

Tea-A Magazine

http://www.teamag.com/ 

Request writer’s guidelines at teamag@teammag.com

 

Tea Experience

www.teaexperience.com

Request writer’s guidelines at features@teaexperience.com 

Jodi’s Tip: We’ve all done it. After a Google search, a magazine’s website pops up on our computer screen. We give it a quick glance and fire off a query. But the truth is, nothing beats a print copy for learning exactly what editors want. Unfortunately, if I bought one copy of every magazine I wanted to write for I’d soon go broke and have to go back to my job at the coffee shop. Eek! So, use your brain instead of your wallet to learn about new markets. Many magazines offer you a free sample copy through their websites or those annoying little postcards in other magazines. Just remember to promptly return the bill they send clearly marked "cancel". Ask friends for copies that are headed into the trash bin. My writer’s group also set up a magazines trade for members who receive complimentary issues when one of their articles is published.

 

About the author:  Jodi M. Webb spent years writing articles for dozens of magazines such as Pennsylvania Magazine, American Profile, and Christian Science Monthly. But recently she’s been discovering a wonderful new market: business writing. Her new specialty includes catalog copy, customer newsletters, and writing in the voice of her alter-ego the Organizer Genie. Like every writer Jodi feels she has a book (or two…or three) in her but she hasn’t managed to get an agent or publisher to agree with yet. Stay tuned for updates!

 

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         Last updated: February 21, 2007