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| Category: Writing:Freelance | |
| About the Book | |
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Free Excerpt From The Book (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
The Well-Fed Writer titles explore a wholly different freelance writing paradigm – writing for businesses, large and small, for hourly rates of $50-125+, and where ALL time counts (as opposed to the arena of flat rates for vast open-ended time commitments that are the hallmark of magazine article writing). Simply put, “starving” and “writer” aren’t seen together in public in the land of The Well-Fed Writer. Of course, the delicious irony of this field is that with such handsome compensation, commercial freelancers, once established, have more time to and energy to devote to the writing that really turns them on (that novel, poetry, and yes, magazine articles), without the pressure of having to make ends meet with those projects. In 2000, Atlanta-based freelance commercial writer Peter Bowerman released The Well-Fed Writer, a detailed how-to for establishing a lucrative commercial freelancing business as described above. The book became an award-winning, triple-book-club selection (Book-of-the-Month, Quality Paperback Book, Writers Digest). With 95% new content, TWFW: Back For Seconds (a triple-award-finalist) is a companion volume, NOT a revised edition (the other 5% is a 12-page encapsulation of the TWFW) that builds on TWFW with dramatically expanded sections on sales and marketing – demystifying subjects that are often terrifying to “creative” types. Marketing by phone, email, direct mail, web sites and networking are all covered. The book draws from the author’s own experiences as well as dozens of firsthand accounts from commercial writers across the spectrum and around the world, sharing insights on building the business in ways and under circumstances very different than those described by the author in his first book. That includes small market and part-time business startup, along with freelance opportunities with not-for-profits, little-known corporate avenues, universities, the BIG small-medium-sized business segment and other unusual niches. Its meaty six appendices (90+ pages) include a solidly detailed encapsulation of The Well-Fed Writer, a dozen profiles of successful well-fed writers, an illustrative commercial writing case study, a business startup primer for the newly self-employed (business structures, taxes, retirement and insurance) and writing resources across the spectrum. Finally, the book offers an overview of self-publishing – how the author published his books – as a teaser to his 2006 release: The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living. Veteran commercial freelance writer Bob Bly, author of 50+ writing titles, who called The Well-Fed Writer, “…the best information on how to make more money with corporate clients I have ever read,” weighed in on Back For Seconds with this: ”When I wrote Secrets of a Freelance Writer, it was the first and only book on how to make six figures as a freelance commercial writer. Since then, there have been over a dozen, and of these, this book is by far the most comprehensive, useful and valuable.”
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| About the Author | |
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Peter Bowerman is the author of the 2000 Book-of-the-Month Club selection, The Well-Fed Writer and its 2005 companion, TWFW: Back For Seconds (both self-published), how-to “standards” on writing for businesses for $50-125/hour. In 2006, he released The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living. |
