Julie Knudson is a freelance writer who knows the meaning of persistence: She e-mailed over 300 trade magazine editors and landed more than a dozen regular clients and received over 80 requests for clips. I talked with Julie about how and why she did it, plus how to succeed with trade magazines.
When did you start …
Jul 18, 2011 Advice, Marketing, Writer Q&A
This is a Q&A with Sage Cohen, the author of The Productive Writer and Writing the Life Poetic, both from Writer’s Digest Books, and the poetry collection Like the Heart, the World. Her writing has appeared in publications including Writer’s Digest Magazine, Poet’s Market 2011, Cup of Comfort for Writers, The Oregonian, and How to …
Jan 6, 2011 Advice, Motivation, Organization, productivity, Writer Q&A
I’ve co-authored and ghostwritten several books, including two Idiot’s Guides, one Dummies book, and two Chicken Soup for the Soul books, so I was excited to see that my friend Kelly James-Enger just published Goodbye Byline, Hello Big Bucks: The Writer’s Guide to Making Money Ghostwriting and Coauthoring Books. Kelly also teaches an e-course on …
Oct 18, 2010 Advice, Book authoring, Writer Q&A
Dan Baum has written for Rolling Stone, Playboy, Wired, and other big-name magazines, and is a former staff writer for The New Yorker; on his website, you can download proposals that landed assignments with these magazines. Baum is the author of Nine Lives, and runs a blog called WordWork. The account of his “short career …
May 18, 2009 Advice, Interviewing, Magazines, Query letters, Reporting, Rules, Writer Q&A, Writing
Jenny Cromie over at the Golden Pencil featured our own RW travel writing instructor Alison Stein Wellner last week in her Successful Freelancer Spotlight. Yay Alison!
I’ve pasted this quote from Alison in my motivation file: “My advice is, as much as possible, to forget all about this economic environment. I agree that it is scary …
Jan 10, 2009 Advice, Classes, Writer Q&A
