This is a guest post by Gwynneth Anderson.
How did you feel the last time someone sent you a personalized thank you note out of the blue? It made your day, right?
But here’s the kicker. The next time you were in a position to help the person who made you feel great, you did …
Feb 9, 2012 Editors, Networking, Observations
This is a guest post by Elizabeth Whalen.
We freelancers have so much freedom—after all, it’s right there in our job title. As long as we do good work and meet our deadlines, we’re free to take a two-hour nap in the middle of the day or work late into the night and sleep in the …
This week one of my former students let me know that a story idea she’d generated and worked on in my story idea workshop this fall ran in last Sunday’s New York Times and was generating a ton of reader response. (Woo-hoo! She’s the third student of mine to land an assignment with the Times. …
Jan 2, 2012 Advice, Classes, Editors, Ideas, Magazines, Marketing, Networking, Speaking engagements
I get a lot of questions like these from writers:
The editor said I should turn in outline, but I’m not sure what exactly she wants.
The editor asked me to write up the article, but didn’t offer a contract. Is this an assignment or does he want it on spec?
One of my key sources …
A couple of weeks ago Susan Johnston brought up a great question in the Comments section of my blog post How to Sell More Articles By Being Yourself: How do I feel about using an editor’s first name in a query versus addressing the editor as Mr./Ms.?
I usually address an editor by first name, but …
Dec 1, 2011 Advice, Editors, Query letters
