How to Win Top Writing Assignments Secrets are revealed about what the high-paying magazines really want, how to build relationships with editors, how to ascertain which sections of a magazine are open to freelancers, what kinds of stories are in demand, what to do if a deadbeat publisher doesn’t pay up, how to market reprints, […]
Year: 2008
The Trouble with Over-Editing
One of the things that has afflicted my fiction writing lately, is that I’ve been editing while I write. I have a series of urban fantasy novels I’m plotting out; the novel series is dubbed, “The Violet War.” The first book, entitled “Traitor’s Masque,” is about the events leading up to a full-scale war between […]
Blog Updates and Links
I’m going to be updating my blogroll over the next couple of weeks in order to provide useful areas on the web for writers, readers, and Madisonians to visit. Feel free to email me or post a link in the comments if you have something to share. Also, I’m accessible on Facebook and LiveJournal. Feel […]
My Flash Fiction on a Horror Podcast Site
For the first time my fiction was turned into something you can listen to and not just something you read. Prey on Pseudopod.org This was a great experience for me; the editors were very kind, prompt and professional. This particular piece, as I had mentioned just the other day, was a very successful work of […]
Freelancing for Newspapers | a Book Review
Freelancing for Newspapers Writing for an Overlooked Market Written by Sue Fagalde Lick Published by Quill Driver Books As the title suggests, this book is a comprehensive “how-to” for freelancers wanting to break into the newspaper print market. I stress the words newspaper and print, because the material here was written by a professional lady […]