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  • From: "David Ellis" <dellis@ahs.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] Writing about gardens that belong to friends
  • Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:39:52 -0400

>From an editor's perspective, in general I would prefer to avoid having an
>author write about the garden of someone they know well, but I wouldn't rule
>it out. In our rather chummy and close-knit world of garden writing it is
>sometimes hard to avoid all potential conflicts of interest in assigning
>articles and reviews.

However, I would certainly expect the author to disclose in advance that
he/she is a friend (or ex-husband, or brother) of the person whose garden (or
business, or product, or book) is being profiled.

David

David J. Ellis
Editor, The American Gardener
dellis@ahs.org

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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:03:33 -0700
From: N Sterman <TalkingPoints@PlantSoup.Com>
Subject: [gwl-g] Do you write about gardens that belong to friends?
To: gardenwriters-on-gardening <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Do you write and publish stories about gardens that belong to
friends? Have you ever had an editor refuse a story (or an
assignment) because the garden was a friend's garden?

Nan








  • Re: [gwl-g] Writing about gardens that belong to friends, David Ellis, 09/21/2007

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