Last week, we discussed how important it is to offer a free excerpt of your book. We also shared URLs to “free article” websites where you can post your excerpt as an “article.”
Unfortunately, fiction authors are sometimes left out in the cold in this area. How do you turn a fiction excerpt into an “article?” Well, good luck with that. The good news is now you don’t have to!
Letters will return next week.
For writers, the challenge of taking trips and hoping to recoup the cost of their expenses with sales of their articles is very daunting indeed. Writers can save much if not all of their expenses (and thus, net more from their writing while getting new ideas) when they participate in group or individual press trips (also called FAM {for Familiarization} Trips), where the Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) of a city or region (or the Public Relations firm who handles their account) pays some or all of the writer’s trip expenses, like air, hotel, attraction fees, and meals, or gets the local venues to “comp (make it complimentary)” the charges. These organizations do this to encourage writers to write about the sights and activities they are proud of and want the world to know about via the travel articles they hope to see published.
Hi Angela,
First, great work on the Writers Weekly site, it’s a very valuable resource.
I am working on some ideas on e-books. One question I had was, if it is produced in PDF format, how can it be prevented so that one person can’t buy it, download it, then send/email to a couple other people, and so on and so on, etc. Is there a way to make it so that the only person who can read it is the person who bought it?
Any help/info would be appreciated.
Thanks!
M.
Subjects for non-fiction books often come from our life experiences, but they needn’t be confined to our professional knowledge. My co-author of The ABC Checklist for New Writers is a family history researcher and has a book on genealogy published as part of The Greatest Tips in the World Series.
Janet Kay & Associates / Janet and George Titsworth – BACK TO COURT! Might just be headin’ to the clink after all! See last post.