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!
The biggest difference for my freelance writing career was learning to pitch. I have had many articles published in online farming magazines, and the pay rate sky-rocketed!
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 […]
We genuinely care about our readers, and everyone who has helped BookLocker.com and WritersWeekly.com become successful all these years. We never want to be indirectly responsible for anyone suffering abuse at the hands of an editor…
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!
Being able to quickly and effectively adjust the length of your articles will help you sell more of your work!
Sometimes competitors and others test BookLocker.com to see if we really do screen manuscripts that we’re considering for publication. Yes, we absolutely do! We rejected the poetry book written by the dog of an author. That was memorable. There was the…
Can I turn interviews into my own book, or do those pieces belong to the magazine?
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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.
