Info for Regular Writers

First of all, thank you each and all very much for the great information via your articles that we publish in Connection Magazine. I am writing to restate our policy for publishing Articles as a regular columnist. Please understand that I must send this to each of you—one reason is so that you’ll know our dates to be out on the stands and when we must have your articles.

I realize that many of you folks have been following our policy with at least two articles in at all times (in fact, several of youhave a number of articles in or even a year’s worth—thank you very much!!)

The Connection Magazine ARTICLE POLICY:

1). You must have TWO ARTICLES in at everytime.

2). If you have only ONE ARTICLE, it will not get in unless you have your two Articles in.

3). Your new Article should be in on the day that the next magazine is out on the stands. For instance, the next issue is out July 15, 2004. Your next new Article should be in on that day, July 15, 2004 (please remember that means with another article in so that you have at least two articles in at one time).

4). On each Article please have:

TITLE (The headline you would like your article to have when it is printed in the paper. Try to make it a short, catchy title. Be aware that we have the right to change the title.)

BYLINE (by author’s name, include credentials PhD, LAc etc.). Please leave the ‘b’ on ‘by’ lower case.

ARTICLE BODY (This is the content of your article. The Article Body should be no more than 500 words.With 500 words, it is usually better to focus on one idea or topic and not try to develop to many ideas or aspects.

BIO INFO (This is a short paragraph at the end of the article that includes information you want the reader to know about you. The Bio Info usually includes: your name, your credentials, address, phonenumber with area code (831), etc.)

5). If you are not going to have your Article(s) in, please let us know asap. To not communicate with us in a timely manner, puts a major strain on the magazine and it staff.

6) Please send your article as a Word file, if possible, attached to an email. If you do not have Word, you can usually do "save as" and choose some form or Word to save in. Attaching your file is much better than copy and pasting it into the body of your email. You can copy and paste also, but please do an attachment.

7) Please fax your article to us so that we can make sure that it hasn't gotten lost in the emails. Our fax number is 831-480-5902.

8). If you do not have two articles in now, please do so. We need one article in by next Monday, June 14, 2004 and thesecond one in by Friday, June 17, 2004. We must be strict with this Article Policy (although this probably does not apply to you, we have had a couple situations where columnists have repeatedly ignored the Article Policy, making it very difficultfor the magazine’s production).

We are very caring folks, so we do understand that there can be ‘situations’ that come up that might interfere with this policy. Please communicate with us asap, in this case.

9). Click Here for the Next Publication Dates. Please note that these dates could change.

Thank you for your contributions and for adhering to our policy. Please call with any questions (831) 459-0522.

10) Click Here to E mail Your Article to Us.