Question for freelance writers: Would you prefer to get a “We’re planning to publish your essay but don’t know yet when we’ll have edits for you” email or to wait up to the full 3 months to hear back?

Between Open Secrets Live and the Finders and Keepers podcast launch and our Q&As, we have an essay editing backlog waiting for us and are trying to plan how to tackle it.

Thanks to everyone who’s submitted for your patience, and please keep submitting! We’re planning out our editorial content as far as we can, and have so many wonderful essays in the queue, especially for Object-ives, which we’ve tentatively mapped out through August, amazingly enough.

Also in the works: a paid literary agent pitch slam and a free Substack Live session with our editor-in-chief Rachel Kramer Bussel about how Open Secrets works.

We’ll post our writing guidelines as a comment since sometimes Notes with links get lost.