Background: Aly Walansky is working on several Valentine’s Day gift guides, including wellness gifts, pet gifts, food/spirits gifts, and more. To pitch items for these guides, please include: name of item, links to major retailers (especially Amazon or other large websites), a link to an image plus any necessary credits, a brief description of why it fits, and confirmation that the item is currently available/in stock. All these are for earned media, not sponsored guides.
Instructions to pitch: Send your email to [email redacted] - do NOT just hit reply on this newsletter, or there’s a good shot your email will be lost in the heap. Give your email a subject line that makes it clear which story you are pitching me for — it’ll help you in the long run. Consult Aly's guides for submitting [url=https://substack.com/redirect/51fee0e6-7837-43fe-ba29-ad2c2fae40f1]expert commentary[/url], [url=https://substack.com/redirect/0d52496e-e9cc-4980-bd51-66497bf30559]catching a journalist’s attention[/url], [url=https://substack.com/redirect/5f3da84d-13d7-4457-9d96-a54210b50366]winning pitches[/url], and [url=https://substack.com/redirect/68b2467e-23fe-437f-b0e1-25af0f292b7f]photo submission guidelines[/url]. Also, [url=https://substack.com/redirect/fe462973-fd72-44ce-bb3e-27c35a829cbf]the full pitching best practices webinar is here[/url].
Start a new thread for each gift guide and specify clearly which one you’re pitching. Do not just reply to this email.