Letters To The Editor For September 5th
Letters to the editor will return next week.
Back Page Break-In By Barbara Neal Varma
The Smithsonian has one. Good Housekeeping and Redbook, too. It’s the back page article, a one-page piece that adds a touch of humor, opinion or information before the final close of a magazine’s cover.
Back page articles provide excellent break-in opportunities for writers eager to place their work in major markets. Written with a slant towards essay or opinion, these last words are often the first published pieces for freelancers not (yet) listed on the magazine’s masthead.
Is this Newspaper Trying to Pull a Fast One?
I get your ezine every week and really enjoy what I read and have learned a tremendous amount. I’ve written you on occasion and thought you’d be a good one to bounce this situation off of…
I started writing professionally about four years ago, at age 41, starting with a small weekly newspaper that has grown from about 8000 copies to about 21,000 copies now. I write all sorts of feature stories and news writing and sometimes take my own photos.
BookLocker.com Set the Stage for a Multi-Book Contract With a Traditional Publisher By Tom Douglas
As a Toronto-based freelance writer, I was often asked when I was going to write a book. When The Toronto Star, Canada’s largest daily newspaper, started buying articles about my life growing up in the wilds of Northern Ontario, I figured the time had come.
So I collected a number of both funny and poignant anecdotes I had written about my early life into a manuscript with the title Some Sunny Day. But, as an unpublished author, I found that it wasn’t easy to attract the interest of a traditional publishing house.
Whispers And Warnings For September 5th
SM The Magazine for Single Mothers / singlemothermag.com / Single Mother Magazine / Mystic Publications, Inc. / Crystal Jennings – TWO MORE COMPLAINTS.