Unless other arrangements are made, payment for articles includes payment for the photos and illustrations. We prefer to see a finished manuscript but will respond to query letters. Payment is based on quality of work, amount of editing and rewriting needed, length of work, and inclusion of photos or graphics. We edit manuscripts to conform to the Chicago Manual of Style . Manuscripts should be typed double spaced on a sixty-character line.
Photocopies are acceptable as long as they are clearly legible.
Contributors should keep an exact copy or computer file of any manuscript submitted. All submissions are subject to editing, and we try to involve authors in that process as much as possible. Very few articles are complete with only one quoted source. Writers who misrepresent themselves as experts, or are not up front about if and where a piece has been previously published. Writers who are impossible to get ahold of, or who do not return messages.