There IS life after New York! A Freelancer’s Life Can be Tough, but Oh! The Pleasures of Having a Hiking Trail only 15 Minutes Away…
I love New York. I am so grateful to have lived there, worked there, and cut my professional teeth in The Big Apple.
But sometimes a geographical change is necessary…and it can also be exhilerating!
During the years I worked as an editor for several national magazines (including the now-defunct House & Garden), I couldn’t help but notice that many articles featured homes, chefs, and designers residing in and around New York (or Los Angeles, where most magazines have offices and location scouts.)
Yawn. Greenwich, CT. Wilton, CT, upstate New York, Santa Barbara, CA. Those locations are fantastic, but there are talented chefs, designers, and artisans in the rest of the USA!
Surely, there is great talent in NY and CA. But I can’t help but believe the decisions to feature so many East Coast/West Coast articles involve editorial budgets. It’s much easier to send an editor, writer, or stylist to a day-trip-from-the office locale than to fly him or her to a faraway place.
Which brings me to one of the reasons for my relocation to Montana: I wanted to be a resource for editors on both coasts…to scout, find locations, stories, and of course, to write about them.
Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, Oregon, Washington and the Canadian Rockies. They are my neighbors and we all share a similar love for the outdoors and for the freedom of the West.
Editors–especially in this economy– love the fact that they don’t have to fly someone to the Northern Rockies….They know they can call ME! A magazine can save oodles of $$$$ without the added expense of airfare, hotel, etc.
Editors and Publishers: Contact me for your editorial needs. Summer is coming: Fly fishing stories, Picnics under The Big Sky, Hiking and Biking articles and more….Shoot me an e-mail or call me. Let me do the legwork for you!
office: 406 582 1859
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