Not this Magazine
Normally if a magazine isn’t interested in my query they don’t respond at all. However, I did get a response from this guy. I pitched to an inflight magazine. Here is his response (then I’ll tell you what I sent):
“Hi Audrey,
Thank you for the pitch. Unfortunately, being an airline, we can’t really write about disasters, even preventing them. You understand.
Best,”
You can probably guess what I sent. A new approach to preventing disasters taken from the Japanese. It took me a second to get why that would be a problem for his magazine. Then I put myself into the shoes of an inflight magazine reader taking in a story about disasters as the plane begins to tremble.
Hmmmm. I laughed at that one.
That is really funny! I think it’s cool that you are pitching stories
That is pretty funny
That is pretty funny
It was really funny. It would be hilarious to hear stories from other terrific writers about such situations.