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 Improve your craft and learn about the industry at this year's Pennwriters conference (in Lancaster, PA). Writer's Digest editors and authors will be in attendance, and Joyce Carol Oates will deliver the keynote address.
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The M-Word: Marketing
For many writers, marketing is a dirty word—an ugly truth that must be dealt with. Do you want to know what marketing really means? Then read this blog by the beloved marketing manager for Writer's Digest Books, Scott Francis. It's all about marketing your writing without selling out.
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 Yes, the odds of landing a nationally syndicated column are against you. But that doesn’t mean you can’t find success.
by Lisa Abeyta
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 Alicia Rasley, author of The Power of Point of View, is a writing instructor, editor, and RITA Award-winning author. Her advice: Expect as much from your writing as you can. If you "get it right" in your first draft, your standards are too low.
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 Bill Roorbach, author of Writing Life Stories, has publications in both creative nonfiction (memoir, essays, nature writing) and fiction (novel, short stories). He's also the William H.P. Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. The advice he emphasizes is this: Write every day.
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What’s better than selling an article for $750? Selling it again for $200, then again for $150, then again for $200, without doing anything more than letting an editor know it’s available.
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Rather than follow George Plimpton’s footsteps, Philip Gourevitch took over the reins of The Paris Review and sought a new audience.
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 How can you light fires under editors? In this excerpt from The Craft & Business of Writing, learn why it's a businesslike, professional, and distanced attitude that will first give you perspective on the problems you're encountering, and then will allow you to handle problems without placing a self-destructive fire under yourself.
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