Meredith

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Julie,
I don't work directly with the Doug and the other folks at BHG, but I can
tell you that the way they produce stories is a little more complicated than
most.
If you're not satisfied with BHG, have you any interest in sending the
garden to the gardening SIP titles (such as Garden Ideas and Outdoor Living;
Garden, Deck, and Landscape; Country Gardens, Garden Rooms; Perennials;
Garden Shed, etc.)? It has a much better chance of being published by one of
the SIP titles (simply because of the numbers alone; we produce more than 25
issues a year (each with more than 100 pages of gardening content) a year.
Compare that to BHG, which has 12 issues a year and 12 or less pages of
gardening content an issue. If you'd like more info about this, please let
me know (offlist).
We also sometimes have the scouts write the story, but in most cases, our
scouts aren't writers. (Most of BHG's scouts aren't writers, either, which
makes Doug's comment all the more true.)
The SIP titles are always looking for gardens to consider; if any of you
are interested in working as location finders for us, please drop me a note!
By the way: The new (summer 2004) issue of my magazine, Garden Doctor,
should hit newsstands about 1 June, 2004. This is a new title that we just
launched in autumn 2003. If anyone picks it up, I'd love to hear your
comments on it. E-mail me offlist at Justin.Hancock@Meredith.com
----Justin
Editor, Garden Doctor magazine
Better Homes & Gardens Special Interest Publications
1716 Locust Street
Des Moines, IA 50309
515.284.3099
Justin.Hancock@Meredith.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Julie_BawdenDavis/SCC@SCCOMPUTERS.COM
To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 11:43 AM
Subject: [GWL] Advice Re. Better Homes and Gardens

I sent an e-query plus scout photos to Doug Hall at Better Homes last week
regarding an unusual, very photogenic garden in Southern California.  He
replied the next day that they have a "convoluted" way of producing articles
there, and that the scout for an article rarely writes it.  I doubt the
owner of this garden would be comfortable with anyone else writing the
article (she's the wife of a Hollywood actor--but doesn't want that part
played up, which I haven't in another article I did for a regional).  I just
wanted to know what kind of experience other GWAA members have had with BHG.
 I haven't written for them before.  I did mention in my query my numerous
garden writing credentials, including my lastest book Readers's Digest
Flower Gardening.  Thanks for any input,
Julie Bawden Davis
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