Authors! Create An Audience In Five Easy Steps…By Hunter Liguore
Every author needs an audience, and there’s no reason why you can’t start building one right now in your own backyard. What follows are five easy steps to get you started…
Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone By Polly Tafrate
Several years ago, in the “Paying Market Section” of WritersWeekly.com, I noticed a German magazine seeking articles. I’d published one for our local paper about independently operated Saturday language schools, so called because they meet on Saturday mornings throughout the school year. I pitched them my idea, but narrowed my focus to German schools. In turn, they sent me a contract. Last year, another German magazine requested a similar version of this article. I freshened it up and it, too, was published…
Short Winter Trip!
I am almost completely ready for Christmas. I just have a bit more wrapping to do. So, it’ll be nice to take a small breather before all the Christmas company starts arriving in a couple of weeks…
Letters To The Editor For December 10th
This Week:
- WritersWeekly 24-Hour Short Story Contest Entry Evolves!
- Is That Free Ebook Site REALLY Violating Your Copyright? Maybe Not…
From Baseball To Barnyards: Land A Contract Writing Children’s Non-Fiction Books! By Tyler Omoth
You’ve seen them lining the shelves in the kids’ section of your local library. Perhaps your own children read them. Simple books that teach, explain, examine, and enthusiastically describe the world to children one simple subject at a time are everywhere. Luckily for us, someone needs to write them…
Do Ebooks Make Good Children’s Gifts? Not Really…
Will my children’s chapter book make a good EPUB and/or MOBI (ebook) candidate? It has lots of pictures. I’d like to try to get some Christmas sales.
Using Words To Create Imagery Is Integral To Writing Success! By Rebecca MacKenzie
Whether writing advertising copy, novels, articles, essays, or poems, it is essential to paint word pictures by wringing the last drop of creative juice from the sponge of your brain. Adjectives, verbs and adverbs make butterflies of less-than-colorful nouns and verbs. Yet, apply a too-heavy coat of description and the reader’s mind will never take flight. As in mixing colors, precision coaxes the loveliest of hues to appear; in writing, excessive verbiage results in a muddy mess…
Elf On A Shelf Mischief!
Our elf, Christopher, returned on Friday and Mason and Max are SOOOOO excited! So far, Christopher has turned my entire inventory of LED “candles” on (so I had to buy more batteries!), has almost started a fire by roasting marshmallows in the middle of the night, took a ride on our ceiling fan, and used Mason’s toy bulldozer to bulldoze an entire (brand new!) bag of gourmet (expensive!) chocolate chips…
More World’s Worst Book Proposals And Query Letters!
Thanks for once again publishing your “world’s worst queries and book proposals.” It’s hard to believe that people are really that stupid. But…I guess truth IS stranger than fiction.
JM
Use Magazine Vendor Websites To Find New Paying Markets For Writers! By Robert Kingett
We have all been there. We have poured over websites for writers, submission directories like Writers Market, and WritersWeekly.com to find that next freelance opportunity. There are many magazines to write for, both online and off, especially now that the Internet has blossomed and bloomed, but the trouble comes in when writers try to find actual paying work…