Hi Ella, Andrew,

I’m sure you’ve been inundated by media requests and freelance pitches, but before you dismiss this one, please give me a minute of your time by way of an introduction.

I’m a gadget magazine editor, having edited Stuff, T3 and, most recently, The Gadget Show magazine. During my tenure at Stuff, I took the magazine to an ABC of over 100K for the first and only time in its history, a circulation record that still stands. After decamping to T3, I set an ABC record of just shy of 61K, a record that’s also yet to be beaten. And having produced and edited The Gadget Show Magazine from scratch in just 6 weeks, it achieved 70%+ efficiency from nowhere on a 50k print run. I also held the position of freelance tech editor at Esquire for 5 years from 2001 to 2006, so I’ve worked with mainstream men’s media in the past.

I’ve just finished launching the T3 iPad edition, which was a ‘unique’ experience and am now decamping from Future Publishing after 4 years with a view to finding some new challenges.

What I want to know is: are you covering gadgets and technology? And secondly, do you need someone to make sure you’re at the cutting edge of technological innovation, and most importantly someone who knows how to pitch tech copy at a mainstream audience? Not to mention someone with all the right contacts to get the coolest kit before the rest of the press.

If so, I’m available at a time to suit yourselves to discuss further.

Kind regards,

 

 

Dear Andrew —

Congrats on Gaz7etta, the taster issue I saw showed real flair.

Are you looking for contributors? I’m the ex-editor of Time Out magazine and of the Saturday Times’s entertainment supps, and I still write about film for the Times. If you need a film reviewer, I am absolutely your man.

But I also have a suggestion for a weekly column.

I’ve played poker for seven years: in tournaments with world champions; in home games; through the night with hookers, lawyers, drunks and millionaires. I went freelance partly to indulge my passion, which is much more about people-watching than it is about the cards.

They call this “living the dream”. Or trying to. I’d like to write a weekly column about the people I meet, and the frankly bizarre situations I often find myself in. I’d also let Gaz7etta readers invite me to their home games.

And, along the way, I’d explore through the betting, bluffing and banter, what it is to be a man.

Interested? I can send you links to my poker articles in the national press, or even a chapter or two of a forthcoming book about my travels with poker. Or meet for coffee, and I’ll bring them along.

Look forward to hearing from you,

 

 

 

 

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