Editors' perspective: how do you judge someone you've never commissioned before?

We discuss professional turn ons — and turn offs — when editors are looking at their writers

You’ve only got one chance to make a good first impression on a new editor. You’ll probably have spent an unnecessary amount of time reworking a pitch until you finally hit the send button, and then it’s in the hands of the gods — or the travel editors as they probably prefer to be known. But, regardless of how good your pitch is, there are multiple thi…