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Advertising & Editorial Contributions

COVERTSIDE offers a unique and influential showcase for advertisers to connect with a close-knit community of high level consumers enjoying significant disposable income. COVERTSIDE is the only magazine that brings your message to every member of this passionate sporting community.

COVERTSIDE, published quarterly, is the official publication of the MFHA (Masters of Foxhounds Association) and the hub of communications within the foxhunting community. Our readers look to COVERTSIDE to bring them the romance and tradition of a sporting, country way of life; informative, entertaining, and insightful articles; and dynamic, award-winning photography.

Advertising in Covertside:

Covertside has a lot to offer advertisers: While Covertside has a current circulation of about 8000, it reaches serious foxhunting members and supporters of MFHA-Registered and Recognized hunt clubs across the United States and Canada. Our readers are affluent enthusiasts who love horses and hounds as well as travel and the foxhunting lifestyle.

Readership demographics, as determined by a survey conducted by the University of Maryland, are impressive. Ask one of our sales representatives for a copy of readership demographics.

Hunt Roster and Directory:

In Fall 2010, Covertside will be publishing the Hunt Roster and Foxhunting Business Directory. This publication will be distributed to all current MFHA subscribers and members, in addition to select retail stores, foxhunting events and other events of interest. Current Covertside advertisers receive a free listing. If you’d like information about advertising in the directory, having your business listed or distributing it for us, please contact us, we’ll be happy to help.

Business listings in the directory are $30.  You can sign up and pay right here: Fill out my form!

Covertside is a lifestyle magazine for foxhunters published by the Masters of Foxhounds Association (MFHA) about the magic of the sport of foxhunting—the hounds, the horses, the people, and the sporting culture. It is an enthusiast publication devoted to all things foxhunting, and its main pursuit is an appreciation of the sport and community of individuals who contribute to its longevity.

Covertside has a current circulation of about 8,000 serious foxhunting members and supporters of MFHA-Registered and Recognized hunt clubs across the United States and Canada. Our readers sporting enthusiasts who love horses and hounds as well as travel and the foxhunting lifestyle.

GENERAL GUIDELINES

Covertside accepts unsolicited manuscripts and photographs. Writers wishing to submit material should query the editor with a story idea, working head and subhead, and a paragraph synopsis. Also include published clips and a short summary of your strengths as a writer. Our staff will determine if the proposed article fits the magazine’s editorial needs and schedule, along with considering your potential to write stories we’ve conceptualized in house. To submit a query contact the editor via email at editor-at-covertside.net.

In all cases, Covertside makes no commitment, and all freelance articles and photographs are, therefore,  “on spec.” Covertside cannot commit to publishing freelance material in specific issues and the editorial committee of the Masters of Foxhounds Association maintains the right cancel any editorial submission at any time.

MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES

Please adhere to the following steps in submitting editorial material.

- Submit a query along with the electronic copy of the completed manuscript as e-mail attachments saved in Microsoft Word. Use default Word settings for tabs and formatting; refrain from sending files that include custom formatting, headers, footers or inserted text boxes. Include word count on the top of the first page along with a short bio.

- Break manuscripts into subhead sections for greater readability.

- Limit manuscripts to 1,500 to 2,500 words, including sidebars.

- Be aware that all freelance submissions will be edited. Covertside reserves the right to lengthen, shorten, edit or even rewrite a freelance manuscript.

- Refer to the most current edition of the AP Stylebook for usage/style guidelines. The Elements of Style is also a useful reference to settle questions about word usage and sentence construction. Covertside also maintains its own style book.

- Check your facts with appropriate sources.

- Keep a backup copy of your manuscript indefinitely.

- In all correspondence, please include your complete address as well as a telephone number and/or e-mail address where you can be reached.

E-COVERTSIDE GUIDELINES

We invite you to submit material for web-only publication. These pieces cannot be more than 600 words in length and may be on topics slightly more news-oriented than those covered in the print magazine. Especially thrilling hunt reports, noteworthy news events, dispatches from hunting escapades abroad and local legislative issues that are of concern to the foxhunting community are all ideal subjects for our well-read website. You will be notified if your work is selected for publication.

In submitting material, you warrant that you have the right to do so and that your work does not infringe on the copyright or rights of privacy of others; you also agree that we may post and maintain the article on our site. You retain copyright but grant us exclusive online rights for a period of three months and non-exclusive thereafter.

Please email your work to editor-at-covertside.net and include YOUR LAST NAME and E-COVERTSIDE SUBMISSION in the subject line.

PHOTOGRAPHY GUIDELINES

Covertside, the Magazine of Mounted Foxhunting, publishes photographs pertaining to the culture, tradition and sport of foxhunting. We use high-quality, mostly color photographs and prefer digital files (see our requirements below). We accept stand-alone shots as well as photographic essays. Please send a good selection of original images. Identify all people, and, where appropriate, horses or hounds. Write captions for scenes that require some explanation.

Covertside chooses only photographs that meet the following criteria:

- Capture the essence of foxhunting: the sport, the tradition, the people, the horses and the hounds.

- Put us in the action. While we occasionally use well-framed portrait, landscape, or atmospheric shots to illustrate articles, we prefer active images that convey the excitement and thrill of the hunt.

- Depict only the highest standards of sportsmanship and adhere to the guiding principles of the MFHA.

Email all photos for consideration as attachments to editor-at-covertside.net and be sure to include your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Please do not send unsolicited transparencies and prints. We cannot ensure their safe return. If you have several submissions or very large files, we can accept digital submissions on CD. As with freelance articles, the editorial committee of the MFHA has the right to cancel or modify any photograph at any time.

How to submit digital images:

- Use the highest megapixel camera available to you.

- Shoot in .RAW if possible

- Save images as either .RAW or .TIFF format. We also accept hi-resolution .JPGs, no less than 300 dpi.

- If your camera has various RGB options, select the “Adobe RGB” option.

- If your camera has Processing Parameters, select the Parameter that provides baseline settings, which apply NO adjustments to the image.

Rights and Usage:

Submitted photographs become the property of the Masters of Foxhounds Association and may be used with permission for promotion, advertising, presentations, or other usages as the association sees fit.

Permissions:

If your photograph includes a subject who is under 18 years old, we will not accept the submission without a letter of permission of the parents or guardians to use the child’s image. Please obtain the letter prior to sending us the image.

Thank you for your interest in Covertside and we look forward to your query!