Notes From a Self-Professed Writing Mercenary By Paul Armentano
For the better part of the past four years, I’ve worked as a hired gun. In other words, I’ve financed my living primarily as a freelance commercial writer.
No More Cruddy Contracts: Six Rules for More Agreeable Agreements By Kelly James-Enger
The average freelancer is probably much more interested in the actual writing he or she does than worrying about the business aspects of a writing career. Consider contracts. Many writers simply accept the language in the contracts they receive because they don’t know any better, they’re afraid to try to negotiate with a publisher, or […]
Success Breeds Success through WritersWeekly.com by Mary Cook
Certainly you may have my autograph – but no pictures, please! WritersWeekly.com brought me fame and a mailbox bursting with fan mail. Okay, there were eight e-mails, but when you consider that until then I’d only had two fan letters in my 15-year writing life, that was riches indeed. Andy Warhol predicted we would all have our 15 minutes of fame, but mine lasted almost a week.
Deducting the Home Office – Just Got Better By A.J. Cataldo, Ph.D., CPA, CMA
Excerpted from: Tax Planning Strategies for the Self-Employed Much mysticism surrounds the home office deduction. Many tax accountants continue to advise their clients to avoid the home office deduction. They may say that any depreciation deduction will have to be recaptured if/when they sell their home. This was always a silly argument. As of December […]
Easy to Break Into Online Markets By Kristina Knight
The phone rang this morning and I realized for perhaps the first time that I Am A Writer. It was my friend, Jen. We used to work at the same TV station.
Doubling Your Dollars By Dekker Malone
Writing a sequel to your existing novel can double your dollars. Learn how to sell two books to customers instead of one! This is a free excerpt from SEQUEL SENSE, an entertaining, insightful look at sequel writing and marketing. I discovered something about sequels in a most unexpected place – Wichita Falls, Texas. That’s where […]
Going Back To School By Sandy Siegel
In the ’90s, as my television career faded into the sunset, I started to think about switching writing gears. With no degree, experience or connections in other fields, I decided to go back to school, not to get a degree, but to use my college alumni association.
Move Over, Grisham — The Upstart Gruen Has Arrived By Judy Gruen
Now that my new book, Till We Eat Again: Confessions of a Diet Dropout, is alive and in the marketplace, competing with 13 billion other new book titles, my thoughts have naturally turned to how I can catapult myself from total literary obscurity to only partial literary obscurity. On mornings when I have drunk entirely […]
Success Part Two — Reinventing myself with the Magic Formula By Angela Booth
Last April I had a surreal experience with a popular women’s magazine I used to write for.
Five Queries Per Week = Success By Lori Soard
It was in 1997, that I realized my love of writing could be turned into a career. I began to read everything I could get my hands on about writing for a living and it wasn’t long before I ran across WritersWeekly.com Over the years, I’ve learned everything from How to Locate More Markets to Writing and Marketing Personal Essays. The variety and wealth of information definitely gave me a push in the right direction.