The Freelance Success Book: Insider Secrets for Selling Every Word You Write (Write It, Sell It)

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Summary: A solidly presented instructional and advice guide
Review: The Freelance Success Book by writer, editor, and teacher David Taylor is a solidly presented instructional and advice guide to making money off of one's writing. The subjects covered is such a "user friendly" manner range from learning how to create quality writing quickly; to ethical and legal issues (including protecting one's copyright); to the best way to submit query letters; to finding editors interested in one's work; to the basics of successful book writing, and much, much more. An excellent and confidently recommended primer for anyone seriously considering a writing career, covering both writing skills and business, The Freelance Success Book would make a welcome addition to any aspiring writer's reference shelf.

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Summary: The Freelance Success Book: Insider Secrets For Selling Ever
Review: The Freelance Success Book: Insider Secrets For Selling Every Word You Write is a textbook for professional freelance writers, part time freelance writers, or anyone thinking about writing for a living. Furthermore, this book is appropriate for those writers interested in writing for magazines, writing web content, or writing books. This book contains important insight into writing that the author has gained as a teacher, an executive editor at Rodale Press (Rodale, Inc), and as a writer.

This book covers essentially every aspect of writing. Topics include how to determine if you should write full time; how to find time for writing; how to make your writing periods more productive; how to research the various writing markets for potential work; how to determine what an editor wants; the importance of good titles for your work; how writing for the web differs from print writing; and the legalities of writing. In these topics, the author gives advice about how to create a successful writing career based upon good work habits, thorough research, and smart decisions. The author also includes sample invoices, permission requests, contracts, and releases for the readers use.

The Freelance Success Book: Insider Secrets For Selling Every Word You Write is full of enlightening advice for the freelance writer. This book is well written, easy to understand, and is very complete. Furthermore, each topic in this book evolves naturally and logically from the proceeding topic. This book is a must have reference for anyone thinking about writing professionally.


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Summary: Don't Start Without Reading This Book
Review: Thinking about freelancing for a living? Great---I am too. Now pick up this book and read it cover-to-cover. Keep it close by; you'll go back to again and again.