Share the Lessons You’ve Learned!
Experience, the saying goes, is the best teacher. Your experience—on the fireground and off—can help teach other firefighters and even save lives. Share the lessons of your experience with the fire service around the country through Fire Engineering.
This magazine’s calling is to be the conduit for the insights that firefighters, officers, and related informational and staffing personnel develop with each day on the job. We encourage readers to suggest ideas for articles. Don’t be intimidated if you don’t like to write,we have the assistance necessary to make your ideas nationally presentable. Your observations and conclusions are what are important.
If you’ve had a fire service learning experience you’d like to share with others, contact us. Call Fire Engineering’s editor, Tom Brennan, at (212) 481 -5775. Or write him, at 250 Fifth Ave., New york, NY 10001. This will give us a chance to discuss how we approach articles and what’s coming up.
If you prefer to just send a completed manuscript, please keep in mind that simultaneous submissions—articles sent to more than one magazine for consideration at the same time—can cause a lot of problems for us and the other magazines. We discourage simultaneous submissions, but if you believe it’s necessary to send a manuscript to several publications at once, please make it very clear that’s what you’re doing.
Following a few simple guidelines when preparing your article will make things flow more smoothly:
- Type your manuscript double-spaced with one-inch side margins.
- Put the title, your name, and the page number at the top lefthand corner of every page.
- Include any color or black-and-white photographs (prints or slides) and any diagrams or tables that support your article. These should come with complete captions, and photos should include the name of the photographer.
Magazines work on a lead time of several months. Sometimes an article that arrives in, say, the spring, is perfect for a subject scheduled for the following winter. Discussing article ideas before submitting a manuscript will help alert you to matters of timing such as this. In any event, though, we’ll do our best to give you a response within one month.
