The Whip Magazine

Editor: Sandra Cooke e-mail: Sandra.Cooke@americandrivingsociety.org
phone: 207-223-3957
PO Box 457
Winterport, ME 04496

The Whip magazine is the American Driving Society's exclusive member publication. It is distributed to all members, through direct mail, 4 times a year and features award winning articles, features and editorials. If you want to know what is going on in the sport of carriage driving you can't afford not to be a member and receive this wonderful publication.

2007 Whip Index

TIPS FOR CONTRIBUTORS

We welcome your stories and your photos! These tips will help you get your material to us in the form that we can use, without extra work for both of us.

Thinking of writing something for the Whip?
Areas where we often need editorial content are:
* Event Coverage—have you attended a recreational drive, a Pleasure Driving show, a CDE, a clinic or other driving event that would be of interest to other readers? Tell us about it! Suggested length 1000 words or less.
* Our Partners, Our Friends—Do you know a driving horse or pony with an unusual history? Suggested length 500-750 words.
* Paying It Forward—This column is a chance to highlight the actions of someone you know, or know of, whose helpfulness, generosity or energy have made a difference either to an individual in the driving community or to the community at large. Suggested length 500 words.
* Personal Opinion—Is there a driving issue you feel strongly about? Let us (and the rest of the ADS membership) hear about it. Suggested length: 500 words.
Submissions will be edited for grammar, punctuation and (if needed) length and/or structure. Please send stories to Sandra via email as attached Word documents, or mail on a CD.

Please share your photographs.
Most of the stories above need photos. To make yours the best possible, here are some guidelines:
* Shoot the highest quality available on your camera.  The larger the file size, the clearer the picture will be, and the larger we can print it.  At a MINIMUM for quality, we need 300 dpi at size 4x6 inches.  Cell phone photos are generally of insufficient quality to print.
* Get a BIG memory card for your camera to avoid running out of space for large files.  1 or 2 Gigabyte memory cards are now quite affordable.
* Don’t try to “fix” the photo with enhancements, corrections, etc.  Sometimes photo-editing software makes the picture less useable for us; if there is a problem, we can probably fix it.
* The best way to send us photographs: Copy them to a CD or DVD, and “snail mail” them to Sandra.  E-mailing images can be very unwieldy. Some service providers use compression schemes that lower the quality of your photos. Images imbedded in an email are not high-quality enough for print. Online “photo sharing” albums are useful only for showing images from which to make a sele4ction.
* Be selective.  We don’t have unlimited space so choose the photos that you feel are the best at representing your story. 
Thank you! We can’t wait to see what you send.