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    DON’T LET YOUR PITCHES DIE A PREMATURE DEATH

    May 21, 2019 4 minutes
    BY TOM BENTLEY

    We’ve all been there as freelance writers: a great article idea lights up your bulb, you embroider it with some flashy, on-topic themes, you research the market, and you dispatch it into the appropriate editor’s inbox.

    And you wait.

    And you wait some more. Sometimes your story is so hot in your veins you send a follow-up email mere days later. Sometimes two weeks of no reply sends you scrambling back to your market research, and you send out the query to editor two and editor three.

    Again you wait.

    The silence in your inbox echoes in your ears. At that point, most of us tenderhearted writers wilt a bit. That pitch

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