Re: Soliciting blog posts from New England garden writers

**D* N* <n*@gmail.com>**

Dang. If only I lived in New England.

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Susan Harris <harristakoma@erols.com>wrote:

> Hi, everyone.  I'm writing to solicit guest posts by New Englanders for the
> new blog of  Mahoney's Garden in Boston and environs.  Here it is:
>  http://www.mahoneysgarden.com/mahoneys-blog
> Anyone on this list in New England, please see the details below.
>
> Also, I'm looking for contact info for:
> - Roger Swain
> - Sara Berg
> - Jennifer Benner
> - Walter Punch.
> Anyone know how to contact them, or ARE you one of them?  Please email me!
> Susan
>
>
> INFO AND INVITE FOR NEW ENGLAND GARDENING EXPERTS
>
> Mahoney's Gardens has hired me - based on my work with a large garden
> center in Maryland and my experience as a co-founder of GardenRant - to help
> them set up, edit and write their new blog , which went live just last week.
>  The purpose of the blog is to be a service to the reader and to the
> community, not to be another venue for marketing.  The blog will provide:
>
> -Great gardening information
>
> - News of New England gardening and greening events and projects
>
> - Profiles of public gardens and gardeners in New England
>
> - Reviews of gardening books, magazines, TV, podcasts
>
> - Etc.
>
>  I'll be posting articles on the blog twice a week and Mahoney's local
> blogger Layanee DeMerchant will be posting at least weekly, too.  Here's her
> blog:  http://ledgeandgardens.typepad.com/ and she co-hosts a Boston radio
> gardening show, too: http://www.garden-guys.com/
>
> Several staffers have already submitted text and photos for articles and
> more want to be involved.
>
> PLUS, the reason for this email:  We're inviting respected and well-known
> authorities in the region to publish articles on our blog as special guests
> - articles we'll be promoting widely for maximum exposure.  We're looking
> for two kinds of articles - one paid, one not paid.
>
> - Authors of recent books (or movies, TV shows, etc) are invited to post
> articles that help promote their books in exchange for - well, helping to
> promote their book.  We're also eager for publishers to provide one copy of
> the book to give away to a lucky reader/commenter on our blog.  We do this
> regularly on GardenRant and it generates lots of great comments about the
> subject, and lots of traffic and buzz.
>
> - Experts affiliated with institutions and nonprofits are invited to write
> guest articles that provide great content AND help promote their institution
> or nonprofit.
>
> - Experts NOT promoting a book or an employer are invited to post articles
> of timely interest to our readers, and Mahoney's will pay $100 per post.
>  They've budgeted for one paid guest post per month.  Again, we'll be making
> a fuss over each of our guest authors - with links to websites, mentions of
> credentials, etc - and promoting each "special guest blogger" widely.
>
> If you're interested in any of these types of guest posts, please let me
> know which type it would be, and what topic you're like to cover, also when
> you'd like it published.
>
> We'll soon be sending out press releases announcing the blog and promoting
> it via social media, and we hope to be able to name a few of our upcoming
> guests.  We look forward to hearing from you - soon. Susan
>
> PS.  Also, if you can think of any more great links we should include in
> the right sidebar, let me know.
> ________________________
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> Site/blog: www.Sustainable-Gardening.com
> Team blog:  www.GardenRant.com
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