Happy Holidays, Angela!
Another year of WritersWeekly.com is almost finished…whew! Thanks for publishing such an informative and useful ezine. I look forward to another year of your excellent publication. I hope you have a fantastic holiday this year.
Peace.
Michael
If you haven’t noticed, “shelter” (home design) magazines have grabbed a strong seat in the magazine-publishing arena, offering writers many opportunities to report on the latest in, for example, pillow shams, kitchen tiles or lawn furniture.
I am in need of a new agent. I understand Janet Kay’s agency is out of
business.
Can you recommend one or send a small list of agents seeking new
writers?
Today was a great day! I didn’t receive any rejections but I did receive a contract for $300 for a 300-word story from Woman’s World Magazine! I’m sure you’ve seen it. Women’s World is that weekly magazine with a diet and a cake on the cover. You might start glancing at it while you wait for the cashier to get to your groceries. Then you get interested in a story but don’t get it finished and, since the price is only $1.49, you decide to buy it. Well, this woman’s magazine pays well for their articles and fiction. And, yes, they use freelancers.
The snow started a bit late this month in Bangor and I was starting to worry that I’d never get my “children standing in a snowstorm” Christmas card photo for this year! But, the snow did finally arrive and I rushed the children outside for their annual “hurry, Mom, before another snowflake lands on my eyeball” picture.
Each year, I share an idea or two for homemade gifts that creative folks (writers!) can make for loved ones for the holidays. Last week I shared two new ideas, I shared two new ideas, including how to make a quilted felt house and how to create photo ornaments. Here’s a new idea for this week. Iron-on Photo Dolls…
Dear Angela,
As one of your many readers, I want to let you know how much I enjoy and benefit from WritersWeekly.com. The information I have gleamed through your articles, market listings and general informational items has been and continues to be one of the great things about being part of the writing world.
Your advocacy against writing for free has helped many of the new and young writers I know and work with gain confidence in their abilities to say, “No, my writing is worth you paying.”.
The book Query Letters That Work is an incredible piece of information full of samples and examples of how to write those pesky little things.
I have participated in a couple of your on-line workshops and the motivation and information provided has twice set me off on a new line of profitable writing. I could go on and on, but let me just end here by saying that your website is worth passing on to every other writer with whom I come in contact. Keep up the good work.
Dorry C. Pease
LXR Group – designed for writing and working on written pieces, poetry, fiction or non-fiction
https://groups.yahoo.com/group/league_xrevisionists/
https://www.freewebs.com/dcatherine
You’ve done your research, lined up your contacts and written a killer query. You know you’re the perfect person to write this particular article and you have faith that your targeted editor will know that, too; after all, you’ve got the clips to prove it.
But wait, before you hit that “Send” button, thus rocketing your pitch into cyberspace and onto your editor’s virtual desk, think for a minute about presentation. Are those precious clips easily accessible or are they spread all over the Internet; two on one site, one on another and three on a site that no longer exists?
Editors are far too busy to go scavenging the net looking for proof of a writer’s professionalism. The edge will go to the freelancer who can provide such evidence at the click of a mouse, and one of the best ways to do that is via your own website.
You know that “thing” you do in your newsletter where you hook the reader with just enough of an article to make us absolutely, positively HAVE to click on the link to read more? You do that extremely well. What is that called and how did you learn how to do it?
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas and as my
