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Get Your Freelance Work Noticed

Take your pitches to the top with these journalists' tried tactics for getting editors' attention

By Liz Funk – June 29, 2009
One of the first mentors I had when I started freelance writing gave me some excellent advice. Like most young freelancers, I wanted nothing more than to pen features for all the best magazines, but my mentor didn't pitch to these idolized books, unlike many of her similarly-abled peers. According to her, editors at many of these popular publications wouldn'...
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