9 reasons your pitch was rejected

It's probably not what you think

via Dall-E

Let’s talk about rejections.

If you’ve ever been on one of my panels about writing better pitches, you’ve surely heard me say that there are countless reasons editors turn down pitches, and only a few of them have to do with the specific story in question. This is true! I promise! In all the years I spent commissioning stories for NYT, by far t…