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The Handbook for Freelance Writing is a book that tells you everything you need to know to start a freelance writing career. Michael Perry shares his experiences and strategies from cobbling together a successful freelance career from a small town in the middle of nowhere to placating sources and wooing editors. He doesn't offer much in the way of business advice, but that's what accountants are for.
Straightforward and practical, the HANDBOOK FOR FREELANCE WRITING tells you everything you need to know to build a thriving business as a freelance writer. From sales brochures to short stories, you'll learn how to get assignments, get published, and get paid promptly. Throughout the book, you'll benefit from proven strategies and real-world advice on every aspect of a freelance writing career.
"Wherever you see words," writes Michael Perry in his
Handbook for Freelance Writing, "someone wrote them." That means that there's an awful lot of freelance writing work to go around. While many prospective freelancers disdain commercial writing, Perry is more realistic. "Hack writing," he says, "is the writer's equivalent of playing weddings." In other words, commercial writing is a great way to support your magazine writing, at least until the
New Yorker comes calling. Perry has managed to cobble together a very successful freelance career from some small town in the middle of nowhere, and, he makes you believe, so can you. Here he shares much of what he has learned in the process, from ferreting out markets, writing query letters, and conducting interviews to placating sources and wooing and wowing editors. Perry doesn't offer much in the way of business advice, but hey--that's what accountants are for.
--Jane Steinberg
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