My first successful pitch

A word-for-word transcript of the emails that led to my first paid writing commission

One of the most popular topics I see in writer’s communities is how to get your first successful paid gig (and then how to keep getting them). So I wanted to share a word-for-word transcript of my first successful pitch - including the pitch itself and the email exchange with the editor that finally led to the go-ahead (the go-ahead itself reads like s…