Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Magazine Articles - Softcover

Bykofsky, Sheree; Basye Sander, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0028638352 ISBN 13: 9780028638355

Publisher: Alpha, 2000

Synopsis

You’re no idiot, of course. You have a reporter’s eye, a poet’s touch, and you absolutely love to write. Stories, journal entries, letters to the editor—you name it, you know you can write it. But when it comes to selling your ideas to magazines, newspapers and web sites, you feel like the less said, the better. Seeing your words and wisdom printed in black and white seems like a lot more trouble than it’s worth.

Don’t write yourself off just yet! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Publishing Magazine Articles will help get you where you belong—in print. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get answers to all your questions:

• Who hires writers?
• What newspaper, magazine, and online editors want from freelancers—and how much they might pay for it!
• How to write effective query and pitch letters.
• How the Internet can help your writing career take off.

About this title

About the Author

Sheree Bykofsky, the founder and owner of the Sheree Bykofsky Literary Agency, has written and represented hundreds of successful titles over her long publishing career. She regularly teaches university courses on publishing and speaks at writers’ conferences across the country.

From the Back Cover

Take the mystery out of selling your ideas to magazine, newspapers, and web sites by reading this book. It explains who hires writers, what editors want from freelancers, how much you can expect to be paid, how you can write effective query and pitch letters, and how the Internet can help your writing career take off.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alpha
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0028638352
• ISBN 13: 9780028638355
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384