Are You an Arrogant Speaker? Five Rules for Enchanting Your Audience by Wendy Hobday Haugh
By following some basic guidelines, and avoiding certain pitfalls, you can make a great impression, and keep your audience enraptured!
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10 Ways to Get Repeat Assignments from a Magazine Editor – by Terry Freedman
The more repeat business you can cultivate, the easier your writing career will become. Use these ten tips to help you get more “YES” replies from editors you’ve written for in the past!
“Is a 1400-page memoir too long?”
Q – Hi Angela If I decide to publish my memoir, what’s the bottom line on 1400 pages? Can it fit into one paperback volume? D.S. A – At BookLocker, our limit is 1,050 pages but I wouldn’t recommend a book that large. It would be very cumbersome for readers to hold while reading, and […]
How Paying for “Guest Posts” Has Made My Blog More Profitable – by Jennifer Brown Banks
Get QUALITY content for your blog, free up some time for yourself, and expand your reach by paying writers for their contributions!
Writers: Sometimes Nagging Works! – by Dennis Stostad
Editors are busy folks. They don’t mean to, but they sometimes forget about things they receive in email. A little tap on the shoulder now and again can help get your submitted work…especially if your nagging is humorous!
How I Used a Networking Conference to Land a Four-Figure Writing Gig! – Jonathan Rebby John
In this piece, I explain how I used the power of upfront, face-to-face communication (the kind that many of us have forgotten) to land a four-figure gig at a networking conference.
Wouldn’t You LOVE to Get Paid to Write for WritersWeekly? We’ve added a new column!
We are stirring things up here at WritersWeekly! Whoo hoo!! 1. The Success Story column has been replaced by our new Marketing Secrets column. Have you found a unique way to promote your freelance writing business or your book? We’d love to hear about it! See details by clicking on our guidelines link below. We […]
“My publisher is delaying publishing my book, insisting I pay even more money to them for marketing services. What can I do?”
Is this publisher committing extortion???
Using Facebook to Sell Books…but NOT in the way you think! by Richard Hoy, BoostABook.com
You might be surprised to learn that my #1 recommend method of book promotion is Facebook advertising. But, not the way you think…
From “Free Samples” to Demanding 24/7 Availability – 5 New-Client Red Flags to That Say “GET OUT NOW!”- by Charlotte Grainger
From demanding “free” work as a sample, to insisting the job will “only take a day,” to requiring you to respond 24/7, and, more, learn when it’s time to walk away from that potential client.