I can try to sell this to Esquire or GQ, but if it gets shot down I can work down through Maxim, FHM, all the way down to Regional Midwestern Smut-Rags if it pays well.
Community: Gives reader insight to cultural trends, which they can follow if they like.
The psuedo-journalistic narrative that will serve as a fictionalization of how I came into cocktails and how will compare men who can make good cocktails to men how cook in how it can and how the pursuit of cocktail skills proved to be useful, and in fact advanced me socially, romantically.
Cocktails For Beer Drinkers, Fictionalization of how I came into cocktails,
Its a useful thing to know, and you can make things you want to drink. It's more sophsticated, but not too much.
It's pretty easy too.
Cultivate an ideal self: Reader thinks that they are the alpha male/ life of the party type, or at least they think this knowlege brings them closer.
The narrative of the essay will obviously appeal to the male 18 to 35 year old males. It's probably better for Esquire, but it has a place in GQ. It could get a little too querky for GQ.
I can tacitly make the case that beer drinkers can drinking cocktails once in a while, and it will make them more sophisticated, popular and appealing to women. This pretty much makes me wanna puke.
Slobby to cleaned up.
Query:
Analyze Model Article:
Write:
Revise:
Submit:
At the top of the piece, give a summary of the magazines.
Ideal reader/ real readership. (3 or 4 sentences)
Pitch -------> Query Letter
Gah.
Select Magazine: Maxim GQ, or Esquire. (A more upscale Maxim?)
Analyze Magazine: Male readers, 2.5 Million,788K,100k,
Pitch: I will write an article about "The Return of the Cocktail" for men, I will offer cultural narrative,analysis, and recipies.
