Lyn Hughes: you should be thinking about hooks and angles

One top tip: if sending [a pitch] by email, give a lot of thought to the subject line. We get a couple of dozen proposals a day… and that’s on top of the other 300 emails I get. So give us a reason to open it. Which would you be more tempted to read: “Wanderlust Proposal” or “Beyond Mandalay – off the beaten track Burma” ?
Leap Local magazine launches with my story

Leap Local magazine, What on earth? has launched and I am very proud to say they have used one of my pieces in their WTF? section. (That’s Weird Travel Files, in case you are wondering.) I submitted an edited version of Murder on the Kolkata Express to the competition, which reached the short list, but […]