Submission Guidelines for Our Newsletter ("Binky's List")

Hi.  My name is Bob Goodman and I am the volunteer editor of the newsletter for the California Men's Gatherings ("Binky's List"). 

 

Thanks for contacting us about putting a notice in our newsletter.

 

Here are the Submission Guidelines:

 

1. Any Item of General Interest to the CMG community, including things like:

2. What We Won't List.  We generally don't list things that will be appearing on the CMG website itself or in the CMG eNotify emails.  So if you're already doing a local CMG workshop or event, that won't be in Binky's List.  This is for other things you offer to our community.  Keep them in good taste, keep them legal, and keep them in line with CMG values and principles.

 

3. A Single Paragraph Description of your listing.  Keep it around 75-100 words (or less).  If it's too long, either I will edit it (and that might not be pretty), or I will send it back for you to re-edit it so you can get it just where you like it.  On the other hand, if it's only a few words, you might not get the response you want from our readers.  So tell us in a few sentences what you want us to know.  See existing items already listed in our current or previous Binky's List and you'll get the idea.  The third possibility is that since I am a volunteer, I won't have time do any of these things and it just won't get in.  So best to keep it in the right length range to start with.

 

4. Your Whole Name.  When you submit something to the List, your email address alone is not enough.  Sorry, I don't always know who you are from your email address.  And I don't have time to research it.  I need to know your whole name with your submission, but you tell me if you want to list just your first name in the notice. 

 

5. Contact Information.  How do you want people to contact you?  Website, email, phone?  Your choice, and that's what we will put in the notice.

 

7. Length of Run. Generally a notice will be listed in only one issue. If this is an ongoing thing, say a series of workshops that lasts for several months, or a personal ad, or a for sale notice that you want to keep running, you need to be proactive and contact me after each issue to tell me to keep it running. If I don't hear from you before the next issue, it is likely the notice will be dropped. Links of Interest to other local groups (at the bottom of our newsletter) will stay in unless you tell me to remove them or your website URL goes dead.

 

8. Publishing Deadlines.  Generally, the List goes out the first of every month. As you might imagine, things can get busy right before then. Therefore I'm asking for all submissions to arrive to me no later than the 25th. That includes letting me know if you want to keep something running. If you miss an issue, sorry about that. We'll try to get you in the next one. So be smart and send in your stuff sooner rather than later.

 

9. We Reserve the Right . . .  As the editor, I get to edit.  Edit in and edit out.  If something is not appropriate, it's not going in.  Like it says in the restaurants, "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone."

 

I hope this information is helpful.  Please make sure your submission includes everything listed above so you make the next issue. 

 

To submit your request, click here.

 

Happy reading,

 

Bob Goodman