Markets

Plugging for myself and Chicken Soup for the Soul

I’m fond of Chicken Soup for the Soul and other inspirational books as a writer. They make it possible for writers to truly ‘write what they know.’ I did just that and I have a story about my experiences during the college admissions process in a new Chicken Soup volume: Chicken Soup for the Soul: [...]

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Writer’s Market, 2009

I was wandering through Borders this weekend and noticed that the 2009 Writer’s Market has an entirely new cover design. I thumbed through it and it looks like the same great resource, albeit with a bit of a face lift. As much as I love the Writer’s Market books, I did manage to refrain from [...]

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Pet Peeve: Downloadable Guidelines

I keep track of guidelines for various publications that accept freelance submissions. That RSS feed in the side bar of new markets is basically the list I keep in order to make searching for new markets simple. But I have a pet peeve when it comes to guidelines: I really dislike websites that use .doc [...]

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Re-thinking My Stance on International Projects

As a general rule, I’ve worked primarily on projects where at least most of the participants are based in the US. Lately, though, I’ve been starting to rethink my opinion on taking on projects where at least some of the project is international, for several reasons. I know have two ongoing projects with companies headquartered [...]

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Sharing Paying Markets

For a while I’ve been sharing the paying markets I run across on the side of this blog — see the line that says “Thursday’s Market Watch” Well, that feed comes from del.icio.us, a site meant for sharing bookmarks. Since I’ve started using del.icio.us, other bookmarking options have appeared on the horizon. I’m planning to [...]

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Location Can Matter For Freelance Writers

I know that one of the benefits of a freelance writing career is the fact that location doesn’t seem to matter. After all, you can interview subjects over the phone, email in articles and work on a laptop at some nice little cafe. But the fact is that location can matter — familiarity with an [...]

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Keeping Track of Opportunities

I’ve showed you a couple of the sites I use to find markets and freelance work of various types. But knowing where to find work, and organizing those opportunities are two very different things. Personally, I find markets easier to track than other opportunities. You’ve all seen my tracking method over in the side bar. [...]

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Top 5 Places to Find New Markets

Whether you write for magazines or crank out brilliant short stories, you still have to go hunting for markets. (If you lean more towards corporate communication and the like, hold your horses, because I’ll be helping you out tomorrow!) I’ve taken the time to list out some of my favorite spots for markets. Before we [...]

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My Market Watch

I’d like to remind you about a little extra over in the sidebar: my market watch. In the course of a day, I run across many potential markets. Any paying markets that I read about in a newsletter, run across myself or find in any way gets bookmarked via del.icio.us.  That includes markets that I [...]

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