Title: Magazine editors talk to writers
First published: 1996
Description: Based on incisive interviews with editors from such leading publications as Esquire, Parade, Field & Stream, American Baby, and Ladies' Home Journal, this indispensable book gives you all the information you need to write successfully for magazines. Invaluable advice and tips from editors representing the whole spectrum of magazine publishing will help you break into the category of your choice.

Here's the inside scoop on the business of getting published: What you should know about contracts, copyrights, and kill fees; editors: Discover what their roles are, how they make decisions, and what they look for in their writers; queries and proposals: What makes them eye-catching? The truth behind the "what ifs": What if a writer sends multiple queries? What if the deadline is not met? What if an author has problems with an editor?

Magazine jargon: Understand terms such as over the transom, lead time, galley, on spec, and many more.
Subjects: Authorship, Interviews, Journalism, Feature writing, Periodical editors, Herausgeber, Zeitschrift, Interview
LC classification: PN4784.F37 M36 1996