s"Write Articles for Gun Magazines "-2 How and Where to Sell Your Article Idea

Hard Ball · May 16, 2001, 10:46 PM

Sorry to have neglected these threads. My time has been taken up with important things like Mothers Day, my wife's birthday and a big proposal effort at work.
Assuming that you have two or three ideas for articles, let's look at where you can sell them.
That may sound like having the cart before the horse. Shouldn't you write the article before trying to sell it. You can do that, but you will waste less time and have a higher probability of selling your idea if you do a market survey and target your article at three or four specific magazines,
All gun magazines are not alike. Some are general in scope and try to cover the entire shooting field. Others are specialized and cover only one area,
Let's say you want to sell an article on point shooting with handguns, either to say that it is a mandatory skill or complete nonsense.
Which magazines need that kind of article? Specalized magazines hat deal with evaluating and using handguns such as COMBAT HANDGUNS or THE HANDGUNNER, but you might also sell it to a generalized gun magazine such as GUNS & AMMO or GUNS.
But copies of the current issues of those four magazines and study them. Get a feel for the types of articles they publish, how long they are and what types of illustrations they use.
Pick your targets. Say that COMBAT HANDGUNS is your first target, the HANDGUNNER is second. Now you can either start writinng or try to get an assignment to write the article from the editor. How you go about doing that will be the subject of part 3 of this thread,

May 16, 2001, 10:46 PM	#1
Hard Ball Senior Member Join Date: November 28, 1999 Location: California Posts: 3,925	Sorry to have neglected these threads. My time has been taken up with important things like Mothers Day, my wife's birthday and a big proposal effort at work. Assuming that you have two or three ideas for articles, let's look at where you can sell them. That may sound like having the cart before the horse. Shouldn't you write the article before trying to sell it. You can do that, but you will waste less time and have a higher probability of selling your idea if you do a market survey and target your article at three or four specific magazines, All gun magazines are not alike. Some are general in scope and try to cover the entire shooting field. Others are specialized and cover only one area, Let's say you want to sell an article on point shooting with handguns, either to say that it is a mandatory skill or complete nonsense. Which magazines need that kind of article? Specalized magazines hat deal with evaluating and using handguns such as COMBAT HANDGUNS or THE HANDGUNNER, but you might also sell it to a generalized gun magazine such as GUNS & AMMO or GUNS. But copies of the current issues of those four magazines and study them. Get a feel for the types of articles they publish, how long they are and what types of illustrations they use. Pick your targets. Say that COMBAT HANDGUNS is your first target, the HANDGUNNER is second. Now you can either start writinng or try to get an assignment to write the article from the editor. How you go about doing that will be the subject of part 3 of this thread,