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Link: How To Get Your Name on a Magazine

Magazines have been around for over 350 years. The first general interest magazine in English was The Gentleman’s Magazine, beginning in 1731. Magazines with people’s names have been around since at least 1817 when Blackwood’s Magazine was a standard publication in most middle-class English homes. So how do you get that prestigious name on a magazine? There are several ways. Let’s look at each one:

One: Be the publisher of the magazine.

If you want them to remember your name you’d better get it out there. The first magazines were used as promotional flyers for book publishers. Excerpts from current volumes could be plugged there. Later the titles promoted a whole line of publications, such as Munsey’s Weekly (February 1889-October 1929) the flagship of the Munsey empire, that produced the first pulp magazines.

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https://www.michaelmay.online/2016/06/how-to-get-your-name-on-magazine-guest.html