Freelance writing, Catskill County Magazine, pays $0.10 per word

If you are interested in submitting editorial, you must read this entire page then complete the writer’s agreement. Please note that you must follow these guidelines for every piece of editorial that is submitted to our office. Failure to do so may prevent us from using your editorial.



DECKER ADVERTISING, INC. ARTICLE SUBMISSION PROCESS



By purchasing articles from freelance writers we feel this will give us a wide range of choices and writing styles. Because we want you, the writer, to understand the process of our editorial structure we would like to give you some insight on how our process works. First your article is organized by article type and for the specific issue it will be considered. Next, our staff will review the list of editorial that has come in for a particular issue and determine what articles are to run and what will be assigned. Once these decisions have been made, you will be notified if we

decide to use your piece. The final process is that the article will be edited by our Copy Editor and then placed in our Catskill Country magazine and on our Web site (CatskillCountry.com). Finally, you will be mailed payment for your article.



ARTICLE FOCUS



We are interested in articles on living and traveling throughout the Catskill Region. Our definition of the Catskill Region consists of the area east of the Hudson River in the New York State Counties that are Delaware, Otsego, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan, and Ulster. Our readers want practical information on places to go and things to do in the Catskill Region. They enjoy articles on events, attractions, unique businesses, landmarks, outdoor life, shopping, antiquing,

dining and more.



LENGTH



Submitted articles should contain body copy from 800 to 2,000 words. Article title, byline and captions are not counted toward the total word count of the article.



FORMAT



Only electronic submissions are accepted. Fancy word-processing layouts only bog down our layout department, as your formatting has to be removed before we can place your work into our page formats, so we ask that you use simple Microsoft Word documents in Times New Roman, only. When you type for publication, there should only be ONE SPACE after the period at the end of a sentence. All quotation marks are to be put on the OUTSIDE of periods and commas. Also, we omit the last comma in a string of characters. (EG: Shoes, socks, shirt and shorts rather than a comma before the and). We know this seems trivial but this saves us a great deal of time.



EDITING



We reserve the right to edit your work if it does not comply with company policies and for the following reasons: typographical, grammatical, and factual errors; clarity, style, length and format.



EXCLUSIVITY



All submitted articles must be the original work of the author. We will not run articles that have run in other local competing publications. Feature articles that we are purchasing first time rights for may not be submitted to other local competitors.



DEADLINES



Articles must be submitted by the 20th of March for the Spring/Summer issue and by the 15th of August for the Fall/Winter issue, unless otherwise specified. If we do not receive your article by the specified deadline it will not be considered. This same deadline applies for reprints. Writers MUST adhere to our guidelines in order to keep our process as structured as possible. We apologize if this creates any inconveniences but, organization is our number one focus.



FEES & PAYMENT



Decker Advertising, Inc. pays 10 cents per word for first publication rights to an article. Article title, byline and captions are not counted toward the total word count of the article. Reprint articles of at least 800 words are paid $40 per article unless otherwise agreed upon. This fee includes the rights to use your article in Catskill Country magazine and for use on our website CatskillCountry.com. Photo submissions used with writer’s article are paid $15 per photograph published in color and $10 per photograph published in black and white. Payment will be made within 30 days of publication.



SUBMITTING ARTICLES



Submit your article in person or by mail to: Editorial c/o Decker Advertising, Inc., 97 Main Street, Suite 5, Delhi, NY 13753, or by e-mail to editorial@dckr.com and include the following:



1. Author name, address, phone number, and social security number (for tax purposes).

2. Photos for the article, if they apply. While most publications require photos to be submitted with the article we do not require them but do encourage them. Photos should be attached to the e-mail in a JPEG or TIF format.

3. A Microsoft Word document of the written piece. Please use the font Times New Roman. Please note that we will not return any work or photos submitted. We are not responsible for unsolicited materials. Do not send any valuable or irreplaceable items. If you fail to follow these instructions this may result in loss of your submission.



SUBMITTING REPRINT LISTS



We encourage you to submit lists of reprints that you have available for use so long as they have not been used by local competitors to editorial@dckr.com. We recommend that you do so THREE MONTHS PRIOR to our publication date so that we may contact you for any we are interested in using. Please use the cut-off dates listed previously.



Contact Information:



For inquiries: editorial@dckr.com



For submissions: editorial@dckr.com



Website: http://catskillcountry.com