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About Motorcycle Mojo Magazine<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Thank you for your interest in contributing to Motorcycle Mojo Magazine. We are an award-winning magazine published eight times per year- January\/February, March, April, May, June, July\/August, September\/October, November\/ December. We are proudly Canadian and one of very few motorcycle magazines still on North American newsstands.<\/p>\n
The bulk of our readership is between the ages of 36-64 and while we have a predominantly male readership, female readers do make up a significant portion of our readers.<\/p>\n
We rarely give assignments to writers, instead they send me articles of their travels or life-on-the-road experiences and as long as it is pertinent fact-checked information that follows our mandate, I generally will consider it.<\/p>\n
We think this is one reason we have a ‘real person’ feel to the magazine. Real-life experience articles keep us very diverse and unique. Also in saying that, if your submitted article comes in clean, we may only need to edit for grammar and spelling leaving the submitted story in tact. Again, I feel this keeps us diverse.<\/p>\n
Our readers like travel stories<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
We are a family-oriented motorcycle magazine that focuses on all types of road-going motorcycles, touring, history and destination articles. Destinations, meaning somewhere you can ride to for a weekend (or longer) and take in an event or a festival of some nature. A travel story may be a weekend trip just to ride the roads of a certain area, it could be a two-hour ride or a two-week ride, or longer.<\/p>\n
We are especially interested in travel within Canada or south of the border – some place Canadians can actually ride to. While riding in the Alps sounds great, not many Canadians will ever do it.<\/p>\n
We also have a history of human-interest stories featuring people we have met in our travels, however we try to stay away from featuring businesses. We may also cover events if on a national or large-scale level. We would very rarely ever cover a small local ride as the only people interested in reading about ‘Joe Blows 200 km Charity Ride to Save the Whales’ are the people that were on the ride. The smaller rides happen hundreds of time per weekend across Canada. Motorcycle Mojo Magazine is a national magazine and we have to focus on the bigger picture.<\/p>\n
That being said, a ride somewhere exotic, if written properly, may be a unique human-interest piece. Or in some cases a charity ride may have a national interest in some cases.<\/p>\n
We also include product, book, movie and new bike reviews as well as some vintage coverage.<\/p>\n
In a nutshell, we will look at all aspects of the industry and lifestyle but very little on Supersport or Dirt bikes, unless it is really special interest.<\/p>\n
Queries and submissions<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
We gratefully accept freelance submissions but must stress that experience counts. If you have never written before and I have trouble getting past the first paragraph, I will not continue reading.<\/p>\n
We much prefer submissions over queries. If you want to get your foot in the door, send samples of previously published pieces and a selection of high-resolution images.<\/p>\n
Please contact us<\/a> and we will respond with additional instructions on sending attachments of your documents. Please prepare a Word document with the text and high-resolution images separately that are directly related to the article.<\/p>\n
If you must send a query, give a detailed description of the story outline, a 100-200 word sample of your writing style similar to the angle in which you intend to approach the pitched article. You must also include a couple previously published samples of your work, and, you guessed it, examples of your high-resolution photography.<\/p>\n
If you have sent your submission or query to any other magazine, please be up-front and let us know. We do receive a large number of submissions so we cannot always promise a speedy response, but we will get back to you.<\/p>\n
If your submission or query is accepted you will be given a deadline. This deadline is to be adhered to.<\/p>\n
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