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Do you want more acceptances from magazine editors? Would you like your writing income to grow this year? The Renegade Writer will show you how.
For over 20 years Linda Formichelli and Diana Burrell have written for top magazines and newspapers you can find on every newsstand including Family Circle, Woman's Day, Cook's Illustrated, Parenting, Redbook, Fortune Small Business, Writer's Digest, Oxygen, The Boston Globe, Self, Inc., and dozens more. They pitch magazines they've never read, call editors to pitch ideas, research extensively before they even get an assignment, and usually follow their own inclinations rather than the official directions. They've negotiated for more money and better terms without risking their careers, learned that editors are not the writer-gobbling monsters many freelancers fear, and established long-term relationships with editors at top publications. And in The Renegade Writer, they share all their tips and tricks so you, too, can become the go-to writer editors love.
When the first edition of The Renegade Writer was published in 2003, it helped thousands of magazine writers around the world find more (and better) ideas, break into new (or tough) markets, research and write their articles with more efficiency, and get paid more money...and showed them that the freelance life can be extremely profitable when they use their brains instead of tired-old rules. This third edition, which has been an Amazon best-seller in the journalism category, includes new "rules" that freelancers can break, updates on the featured writers from our second edition, and new Q&As with successful rule-busting writers.
Learn how to break the rules for freelance writing success in this classic how-to for writers, the first book in our two-book set.
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From Pitch to Published shows you how to sell your ideas to the magazines you see on newsstands everywhere!
Maybe you're a budding freelancer who dreams of seeing her byline in a magazine like Redbook or Women's Health. Or you're a mid-career writer who can't seem to break out of the pack and clinch the assignments that other writers seem to nab with ease. If you want to start scoring assignments from top magazines like Smithsonian, Inc., mental_floss, and Fitness--not to mention trade and custom publications--From Pitch to Published: How to Sell Your Article Ideas to Magazines is the guide you need to take you there.
In this second book of the set, you'll learn how to craft winning article pitches that pique interest from editors and lead to lucrative assignments. Included are over 20 actual pitches that sold to major magazines plus interviews with the journalists and their assigning editors. You'll learn:
• What every editor is looking for in a story pitch...and if you think it's a list of your writing credits, you're wrong.
• Why your writer's voice is more important than you think.
• How to sell your idea to a national magazine even if you've never been published before.
• What to do if you have no clips, samples, or credentials.
• How to stand out from the competition with your very first sentence.
From Pitch to Published also includes a comprehensive Q&A about the art and science of selling article ideas to magazine editors. If you're a beginning writer, you'll learn how to land your initial assignments with more ease and less angst, and if you've been around the block a few times, you'll find dozens of tips to help you improve your sales ratio.
Note: This book was previously published as The Renegade Writer's Query Letters That Rock.
