Writing for the magazines
Here's one for the magazine editors (and their contributors) who frequent this Forum.
Do you usually expect to receive a proposal for an article beforehand, or do you expect a potential contributor to research and write an article and then submit it "blind". The drawback to this latter approach being that the hapless contributor won't know what other articles the editor is currently considering so there's a possibility of duplication.
Assuming that you do welcome proposals, do you always reply and what do you expect to see in the proposal?
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