What editors are *really* looking for

It's not fancy bylines. It's communication.

via Dall-E

If finding an editor to pitch is difficult, figuring out what really they want is nearly impossible.

That was the idea behind a recent workshop I hosted, in which I and a few other editors who work with freelancers — Julie Gerstein and Laura Norkin — talked about the things editors look for in freelancers, what we want in that working relations…