Re: Did anyone else get this dubious request?

**"* M* <B*@verizon.net>**

I appreciate Shauna's comment.

Back in my earlier days as a young mother and writer I was a freelancer for 
a business weekly, The Orlando Business Journal. Initially I proposed the 
topics but eventually the editors would ask me to do random assignments on 
their list. With some pride, I considered myself a reporter who would 
investigate whatever subject the editors chose to give me. That's how I came 
to write two long pieces about internal auditors and several more about 
municipal bonds. Believe me, back then I was innocent of any preconceptions 
on these topics! But I researched and did interviews with experts and quoted 
them, and llived to write another day. I was shocked, however, to figure out 
that internal auditors rule the world -- or at least they used to before we 
all went bankrupt.

Point is, to me a writer who is willing to prove herself by writing on any 
assigned topic in the general area of interest involved is someone who is 
confident of her skills and eager to plunge into a challenge and start her 
career.

-- Betty Mackey
www.mackeybooks.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shauna Dobbie" <shaunad@localgardener.net>
> Since I publish in print I get queries and unsolicited manuscripts
> frequently. This sounds like a reasonably well written one by a creative
> thinker prepared to explore non-traditional avenues to start her career.
> What kind of hoax could one really hope to pull off with this request?
> I can see no reason, other than time, not to look at a piece she has
> written. If you like it, see if you have a place for it. If not, turn it
> down. Personally, I derive great satisfaction out of helping out a new
> writer.
>

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