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A week ago, Diana and I decided to try an experiment: All the e-books in the Renegade Writer Store (except one) would become Pay What You Want, meaning you, the reader, decide what to pay for each one.

The minimum price was $1 because that’s the minimum my order processor allows. (And they do charge me for each download!)

The deal was this: We would try this experiment for one week, and if we liked how it turned out, we would keep this pricing structure.

Here are the results:

• Around 330 writers took advantage of the Pay What You Want offer.
• The average order was $6.50.
• Sometimes an order was for a single book, but mostly they were for multiple products.
• Many, many people scooped up every book we have at $1 apiece. (Now you need to READ them all, LOL!)
• The lowest order amount was $1. The highest order amount was $30 (for multiple books). (That was pretty exciting!)
• Most writers paid below retail for the books…but some paid around retail, and just a few paid higher! (And this is not a judgement in any way…readers paid what they could afford or according to how much value they thought the books would bring.)
• We got orders from all over the world, including Canada, the U.S., Serbia, and Nigeria! (Discovered one reader from Serbia went to the same high school as our Serbian exchange student!)
• Several writers emailed me to say they hope to make sales based on what they learned in our books, so they can come back and pay more for them. Aw! (I’m actually thinking about creating a way for writers to come back and add more to their payments if they feel they’ve gotten a ton of value from the books. )

So what’s the verdict?

Of course we, the authors, feel we deserve to be compensated well for the value we provide in our books. We worked hard on them, and they cost us beaucoup cash for design, editing and so on. I also pay the order processor, and need to pay for tech help—for example, I paid $500 to have the books pages set up, and another $500 to get them converted to PWYW.

And of course, these books are meant to get writers gigs and change their lives! We think that’s worth at LEAST the $5-10 most of the books were originally priced at.

On the other hand, once we eat the sunk costs, it costs us very little to provide these e-books.

AND…since our mission is to help as many writers as possible reach their freelancing dreams, having 330 people get their hands on our books is excellent news! We want to reach EVERYONE—including those who can’t yet afford to hire help, take classes, or buy full-priced books.

So…drumroll…we decided to keep the PWYW pricing structure!

That means from now on, YOU choose what to pay for each book, e-course book, and checklist…including Write Your Way Out of the Rat Race…And Step Into a Career You Love, which comes with a boatload of downloads (originally $9.99), The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success (also $9.99), and the Write for Magazines E-Course book (originally $29).

(And soon, very soon, I’ll be posting a meditation I created called Positive Thinking for Writers as a PWYW product. I wrote the meditation and it was produced and voiced by a former public radio reporter! It has everything…soothing music, nature sounds…IT’S AWESOME.)

Yep, you can get all these goodies for as little as a buck each.

Don’t have much cash? Pay the minimum. You’re rich? Pay more than retail and reap the karma that comes from covering a less advantaged writer.

Here’s where you can do that:

http://www.therenegadewriter.com/store/

Please do spread the word to all your writing friends! You can post it on forums, share it on Facebook and Twitter, and let your writing groups know they can now get these helpful, valuable books for a minimum of $1 each. (BTW, we reserve the right to change our minds in the future…but for now we don’t foresee getting rid of PWYW.)

Here’s a tweet you can use if you like:

Renegade Writer e-books are now Pay What You Want…permanently! That means YOU choose what to pay! http://www.therenegadewriter.com/store/

Thank you, thank you for helping us make this experiment a success! We’re so excited to get our books into as many hands as possible!

As you’ve probably guessed by the name of this blog, and the book it stems from, here at The Renegade Writer we’re all about doing what works for us. Experimenting. Trying new things. Bucking the status quo.

My personal life is the same way…yes, I LIVE what I preach. I’m proud of my freelance writer/board game designer husband; ballet-dancing Montessori-going son; and two lovely exchange students, from Serbia and Indonesia. (See the gratuitous photo of my three adorable kids to the left.) In October the nuclear fam and I are going to Europe, and in November we’re hitting Tokyo—because Eric and I can work on the road. (And if we time our trips to hubby’s business travel, he gets a free ticket, which is kind of key.

I tell you, we love not being normal…and I want to help others who want to be as weird as we are!

So: While most normal, status quo-type business owners want to squeeze every penny they can out of their customers, that’s not what we’re all about here at The Renegade Writer. Yes, I like money. However, I’m also passionate about helping writers earn a living doing what they love most. And, I’m someone who loves experimenting to figure out what works best for myself and for the writers I help—instead of always going with what’s expected and normal.

All that leads to this:

Not everyone who wants to become a writer has the means to get quality help—good e-books can cost $10 and more, and coaching can exceed $350 per hour!—so now, almost every e-book in the Renegade Writer Store is now Pay What You Want, with a minimum of just $1. I want to get the helpful info in these books into as many hands as possible, no matter what their situation.

That means YOU choose how much the books are worth to you. Yes, even the Write for Magazines e-course book that retails at $29 (and is based on a $267 course), and books like The Renegade Writer, Commit, and Write Your Way Out of the Rat Race—which retail at $9.99!

You can pay less than retail…or if you’re rich you can pay more and reap some good karma because you’re covering someone who can’t afford as much. (But $1 is the minimum my shopping cart service will accept for each book…probably because they charge ME 75 cents for every book I sell!)

HOWEVER…this is an experiment. I’ll be offering the books as PWYW for just one week—until Friday, September 18—and will then take stock of how it went. If we here at The Renegade Writer are happy, and our readers are happy, we can keep the PWYW pricing. If for some reason it just doesn’t seem to be working out…the books go back to retail prices.

Want to gather up a virtual armload of books that can help you write killer query letters, quit your day job to write, reach your goals through massive action, write faster, build confidence as a writer—and generally live and love the freelance life—all at a price YOU choose? Here’s the Renegade Writer Store, where every book but one is now PWYW. (The one that isn’t is only available on Amazon…and speaking of Amazon, our books will remain full price on that site.)

http://www.therenegadewriter.com/store

Have fun loading up on books…I think you’ll dig everything we have! I hope this helps many, many aspiring writers make their freelancing dreams a reality.

This is an excerpt from my e-book Editors Unleashed: Editors Growl About Their Writer Peeves. Enjoy!

The Editor: Editor of a magazine for sports enthusiasts.

The Peeve: Writers who half-ass interviews.

What’s your biggest grammar/style peeve and why?

Disregarding basic conventions—not knowing how to use commas, etc. I don’t care what side of the serial comma debate you stand on, I’d just like you to know there is one. Style: I get stuff written in a sort of pompous, grandiose style that I guess I’m supposed to take more seriously than a basic, matter of fact approach. I much prefer basic and matter of fact.

Can you share a writer horror story?

A writer had trouble getting sources and didn’t bother informing me until after the deadline passed. Then she just said she couldn’t write the piece, bye. I could have solved the problem if she had let me know earlier that she was having difficulties getting people to interview for the piece, but once the deadline had passed, it was a little late. I will never work with that writer again. Another writer would be asked to interview three or four people for a piece but then never really put what they said in the article (he used his own opinion/experiences—fine, but we weren’t asking him to be the expert, we were asking him to interview the experts). From talking to him, I had the vague sense that he would call people up, explain who he was, ask one question and then hang up. In other words, no clue what basic reporting means. How did this guy get to be a writer? Same as above: not someone I will work with again.

What’s your biggest contract negotiation peeve and why?

Writers expecting me to read their minds. If the deadline won’t work, ask if it can be changed. If you think you’re entitled to more money for this article as compared to previous ones, tell me why. If you don’t like any clause in the contract, don’t just stew about it, tell me. I can fix almost any concern that a writer has but I have to know about it first. Don’t just decide I’m being unfair and resent me for it. I try hard to look out for my writers, but I’m not going to be the one to suggest a raise in pay. I have a budget to consider. If the writer brings it up, I’ll do the best I can to make the numbers work.

The other thing that drives me nuts: people who have to spend several days thinking before they accept/decline an assignment. We work on a tight schedule. I need to go on to the next writer if the first one doesn’t want the assignment. How hard is this? Do you have time to do the piece by the deadline? Yes/No. Are you interested in doing the piece? Yes/No. Is the pay offered acceptable? Yes/No. This is not rocket science. This is not a book deal negotiation. It’s probably eight hundred words with three sources supplied due in three weeks. It’s just not that hard to say yes or no.

I would never hire a writer who…

…acted unprofessionally. Polite, persistent—that’s fine. Demanding and stalkerish, your e-mails go directly to the junk folder.

There are so many ways to display a lack of professionalism; which one ticks you off the most?

Writers who act like they’re doing me a favor by writing for the magazine. I appreciate good writers and try to use the same good writers over and over. But we’re doing a business transaction: I of

Carol Tice, six-figure freelance writer and author of the award-winning Make a Living Writing blog, recently started a new gathering place for freelance writers called the Freelance Writers Den. This is not only a rocking forum where you can get your questions answered and share advice with other writers — it also lets you:

* Take an e-course at your own pace.

* Ask your freelancing questions live at a Den Meeting or Webinar — Carol generally offers a teleclass or webinar once a week for Den members only on topics ranging from using LinkedIn to boost your business to how to generate salable article ideas.

* Ask questions privately by sending Carol a private message in the forums.

* Experience past Webinars and teleclasses.

* Leave suggestions in the Suggestion Box forum about what topics Carol should cover in upcoming Webinars and courses.

Carol thought of everything.

The cost is $25 each month for access to information and networking that can help you get started as a freelance writer or increase your freelance income.

Full disclosure: I’m an affiliate, so if you sign up for the Den using the links here, I receive a commission. I’ve never sold anything as an affiliate before except Amazon.com books (and what blogger doesn’t do that?), so I’m pretty excited. I’ve been approached by sellers of various products relating to freelance writing, but I never took them on as an affiliate because, well, I wasn’t impressed and didn’t think the products would be of value to my readers. I’m thrilled to say that Carol’s the real deal.

I look forward to seeing you in the Den!

~Linda

Hi, Renegades! Just a quick note to let everyone know that there are three spaces left in my Write for Magazines e-course session that starts on Monday, February 7. The session that started four weeks ago is going great — my students are brimming with great ideas that I helped them tweak to make more salable. I had one student who called the editorial departments of some BIG magazines and managed to get hold of editorial contact info that’s usually hard to get. Another student landed an interview with a well-known expert for her query — even though she was initially afraid to approach this big expert.

Want to learn how to write a killer query letter? My past students have landed assignments in magazines ranging from Wines & Vines to Spirituality & Health. Join the ranks of these motivated, happy freelancers by checking out the Write for Magazines e-course page and signing up for the next session.

Also, don’t forget that I have a new e-book that will help you become a more effective and successful writer: Get Unstuck! For Freelancers: A 6-Week Course to Boost Your Motivation, Organization, and Productivity—So You Can Do More Work in Less Time, Make More Money, and Enjoy the Freelance Lifestyle. I turned my $200 e-course into a $9.95 e-book so everyone can afford the goodness! Check out the e-book and order it here. Once I get your order, I’ll e-mail you the e-book.

I look forward to helping you kick butt this year! [lf]

This is an excerpt from my new e-book Get Unstuck! For Freelancers: A 6-Week Course to Boost Your Motivation, Organization, and Productivity—So You Can Do More Work in Less Time, Make More Money, and Enjoy the Freelance Lifestyle. If you think the name sounds familiar, that’s because it’s the name of my popular 6-week e-course. I decided to turn that $200 e-course into a $9.95 e-book so that you can get my best tips for becoming a productive writer at a fraction of the cost.

If you’d like to buy a copy of this 64-page e-book, please order it from the e-book page. When I get your payment, I’ll send you the e-book via e-mail. I’m not using an automated shopping cart right now, as I want to make sure I’ll be selling enough copies to make it worth the expense! So please bear with my old-fashioned delivery system for now.

Working Your Work

When you’re working on several projects at once, as most of us writers do, the result can be a typhoon of information. On any given day, you may create interview sound files, receive contracts, gather research for your novel, receive rejections (or acceptances!) on queries you sent six months ago, follow up on queries and proposals, send e-mails to editors and agents…okay, I’ll stop there because I’m going a little crazy just thinking about it.

Luckily, if you have systems in place that work for you, you can streamline how you handle and store these bits of information. Let’s get started!

An Overview

Curious about how setting up systems can help a project flow from acceptance to payment? Let’s say I get a new article assignment. Here’s how I organize it. (And keep in mind that this is what works for me. You may find that software like Evernote or some other system works better for you.) I:

1. Enter the assignment due date into my iCal calendar and mark it blue (to separate it from interviews, which are red).

2. Enter the name of the assignment, the magazine name, the amount due, and the due date for payment into my Excel income spreadsheet. This spreadsheet tells me how much I have coming in, how much I’ve already been paid, and what’s overdue.

3. Create a folder on my hard drive called NameofMagazine-NameofArticle, and move it to my “Articles in Progress” folder.

4. Create a Word file called NameofMagazine-NameOfArticle-NOTES and store it in the project folder I just created on my hard drive. This is where I’ll put the assignment specs (word count, instructions from the editor), enter in contact info of potential sources, and dump any bits of research I come across online.

5. Create a Label with the name of the magazine an article in Gmail so I have a place to store e-mails related to the article.

6. Start finding sources and trying to set interviews right away. This is the one part of the process you can’t control, so it pays to start early in case you have trouble nailing people down for interviews. Whenever I call or e-mail a potential source, I enter the information into the NOTES file I created. I go over the file every day so I know who I need to follow up with.

7. Enter interviews into my iCal calendar. I include the name of the interviewee, the name of the magazine, and the source’s phone number so I don’t have to look it up come interview time.

8. When I do an interview, name the sound file NameofSource-

First the bad news: I recently raised the prices a bit on my phone mentoring for writers. After mentoring so many clients I got a better handle on how much work I put into each session and how much I need to charge. I realized that I was earning well below my hourly rate, so I bumped up the price.

Now the good news: To show my appreciation for all my supporters, and because I didn’t want to just spring a price jump on everyone, through Friday, November 15 I’m offering a 10% discount. You don’t have to actually have your session by November 15 to take advantage of the discount, but you do need to sign up for a session by then. After that, the price will go up again to the new amount.

Through phone mentoring, I can help you hone article ideas, brainstorm markets, get over the fear of pitching, gain motivation, and more. Here’s what a few of my recent clients have said:

“In just a half hour session, Linda distilled years of information in a way that was instantly accessible. I started getting paying assignments in just ten days after following through on just one of many suggestions! Although I am a seasoned writer and have had my name in print, getting insider tips from someone in the know is invaluable.”
— Yael Grauer

“I was hoping Linda would offer practical advice, encouragement and insider information during our 30-minute conversation — and wow did she deliver! Linda answered all my questions and then some, as well as helping me focus on my freelance goals and create a plan to move forward. Exactly what I needed!”
—Carol Heffernan

“In one half-hour telephone session, Linda covered a lot of ground—she answered all of my questions, offered specific, detailed advice and gave me some fantastic tips and resources. As a freelancer who has experience but is ready to move to the next level, it was a huge boon to be able to speak with someone so knowledgeable and so willing to share her insights. Exactly what I needed!”
—Fiona Kirk

You can get more info on my phone mentoring at http://www.writeformagazines.com/mentoring. If you’re interested in signing up for a mentoring session, e-mail me at [email protected] and I’ll give you the details on how to get your discount.

Thanks so much, and happy writing!

You may remember that several years ago, Diana Burrell and I offered a free packet of 12 sample query letters. (In fact, you can still get a copy by sending a blank e-mail to [email protected].) Well, I’ve created a brand new packet with 10 killer queries written by several professional freelancers. These queries landed assignments in magazines ranging from Family Circle to Runner’s World to Wine Enthusiast. Each writer offers details on why she wrote the query the way she did.

To get your copy, sign up here. Enjoy, and happy writing!

You have a query ready to go to your dream market. But is it really ready? Do you have an eye-grabbing lede, compelling quotes, great organization, and compelling examples? Is your writing as clear as it could be? Is your slant honed to perfection? How’s your title?

I can help you with a query letter critique.

Linda’s query critique was exactly what I needed. Not only did she tell me which parts of my query were weak and offer specific suggestions on how I could improve them, she even clued me in to 2 additional markets that might be interested!
—Julie Knudson

Here’s how it works: You send me a query letter you’ve completed before sending it to your target markets. I’ll read it over carefully and use the Track Changes function in Microsoft Word to make suggested changes and comment on everything from your organization to your word choice. I may suggest, for example, that you find stronger sources, structure your query differently, or tweak your title. I may also recommend that you play with your idea to make it more salable. And even more, if I happen to know of a good market for your idea that you hadn’t thought of, I’ll be sure to let you know. It can take me a couple of days to critique your query, because I like to take the time to really think about it.

I’m not afraid to give thorough critiques — and to let you know when something is simply not working.

So what makes me a query letter expert? First of all, I’m the co-author of The Renegade Writer’s Query Letters That Rock, in which I talk to dozens of editors about queries that knocked the editors’ socks off. I’ve also written for more than 130 magazines, many of which I broke in to with query letters — from Family Circle to USA Weekend to Health. In addition, I’ve taught more than 350 students through my popular Write for Magazines e-course and phone mentoring, so I have a handle on common query problems and how to solve them.

I charge $49 for a thorough query letter critique. If you’re interested, e-mail me at [email protected] and give me a little info about you and your idea, so I can make sure I can help you before you pay me.

I look forward to helping you make your query sparkle! [lf]

Summer is a lazy time, but if you invest in your professional development now, you’ll be all set for the fall rush — when vacations are over, the kids are back in school, and you’re ready to rack up some new magazine assignments (or maybe your first!).

I find that when I invest in my own career, I often get an immediate boost. For example, I have phone sessions with my life coach several times a year, and it was with her prodding that I started my popular e-courses, cut my work schedule down to two days per week, and wrote a query that landed me a $2,500 assignment in Woman’s Day. And when I went on a Yoga of Writing retreat in New Mexico two years ago, the instructor convinced me to start offering phone mentoring for writers, which has gone ridiculously well. These career investments ended up paying for themselves — and then some!

To help you gear up for fall, I’m offering a 10% discount on my phone mentoring through Friday, August 20. The cost is normally $125 for an hour or $65 for a half hour, but with the discount the price is $112.50 and $58.50.

Here’s what a recent student had to say about her phone mentoring session:

In just a half hour session, Linda distilled years of information in a way that was instantly accessible. I started getting paying assignments in just ten days after following through on just one of many suggestions! Although I am a seasoned writer and have had my name in print, getting insider tips from someone in the know is invaluable.
— Yael Grauer

Here are some of the topics I can address during a phone mentoring session:

* Motivation
* Productivity
* Magazine querying
* Marketing
* Fear/confidence issues
* Article writing
* Idea generation
* Breaking in/getting started
* General freelancing issues

If you’re interested getting ready for fall with a phone mentoring session with a veteran freelancer, please e-mail me at [email protected]. I want to make sure I can help you before you send me any money.

You don’t need mentoring because you already have a query ready to go? I also offer a query critiquing service. Send me your finished query and I’ll give it a very thorough critique of everything from the idea to the organization to the writing. I pull no punches, but I’m not negative or mean. I’ll even suggest markets you may not have thought of if any spring to mind.

Happy writing! [lf]

(Back in 2006, Linda wrote a post about health and the freelancer. These odds & ends are a continuation.)

Watch your butt

This is an indelicate subject, but I’m an indelicate person, so here goes.

The more successful you are as a freelancer, the more you sit on your ass. Sitting for hours a day at a keyboard = unhappy heiney. Unhappiness begins with a spreading posterior. You’ll notice as the years pass, your butt cheeks spread. Then, you hit 40 or, if you’re female, pop out a few kids, and whoa, it’s Preparation H time. Combine the spreading-butt phenomenon and the horrendous hemorrhoids with a terrible diet — lots of coffee and diet soda, not enough fruits and fiber — and the butt expansion/hemorrhoidal hell only gets worse.

We writers fuss over our wrists, necks, and lower backs, but it’s the butt that bears the brunt of our profession. Make your butt a health asset:

• Do butt squeezes throughout the day. Not only does this help tighten your glutes (the heiney muscles), it gets blood moving and flowing “down there.”
• Aim to eat 25 to 30 grams of dietary fiber every day. Fiber keeps you “regular,” as grandma used to say. When you’re not regular, you’re constipated, and chronic constipation is one cause of those nasty hemorrhoids. Most Americans don’t get anywhere near this recommended amount of fiber in their diets, due, in part, to a love of processed food. There are so many easy ways to sneak extra fiber in your diet:
  • Look for the breakfast cereals out there that have anywhere from 5 to 9 grams of fiber in every serving (preferably cereals that don’t have a lot of sugar and/or artificial sweeteners).
  • Eat raspberries: One-half cup contains a whopping 20 grams of fiber!
  • Include a huge, vegetable-rich salad every day for lunch, and sprinkle it with wheat bran or ground flaxseeds.
  • If you can’t get all your fiber requirements from diet alone, then look to supplements. The Vitamin Shoppe makes a product called Miracle Fiber that I really like. It’s inulin, a natural vegetable fiber, that dissolves completely and flavorlessly into any beverage. A teaspoon has 5 grams of fiber. I add it to my tea and water to boost my fiber intake. I even sneak it into my kid’s hot cocoa.

Aren’t you glad you asked? Ooops, you didn’t.

Play with your diet

When I worked in a cubicle, I used to read a lot of diet books. Not just books to help me lose weight (God knows all those trips to the vending machines took their toll!), but books about vegetarianism and general health improvement. Most of these books required a new way of eating and thinking about food. They also required a lot of time to shop, prepare food, and cook. Or the plan would require me to eat at certain times of the day — and those times were usually when I was trying to get a package out the door to Fed Ex or was suffering through a boooooring meeting.

Maybe you’ve been thinking about going vegan. Or you’d like to cut sugar or caffeine out of your diet. If you’re freelancing, you have the perfect job, the ideal setting, to make these kind of dietary changes (changes to your exercise habits, too!). You have flexibility to plan your schedule. You have no boss who’s going to raise her right eyebrow if you need to chop vegetables at 10:30 a.m. Moreover, sometimes dietary changes make you cranky. I remember giving up caffeine when I worked in an office job. It was horrible. I was snappy, my head hurt, but I still had to perform at 100 percent. If you’re doing this at home, though, you can take it easy for a few days, maybe even sneak in a couple naps. Then there are some of the unpleasant side effects some dietary changes create. Think about what happens when you increase your fiber intake or start eating more legumes. It’s really nice not having to share this part of a new diet with co-workers. (Cats and dogs don’t seem to mind strange noises and smells.)

Set up an HSA

A lot of self-employed folks think HSAs, or health savings accounts, are bennies for those who work for an employer. Not so. You can easily set up your own HSA. (An HSA is tax-exempt money you set aside in an account to pay for things like doctor’s visits, insurance deductibles, prescriptions, eyeglasses — even stuff like sunscreen and massages!) Last week someone on a writers’ board I belonged to posted about a company that offers no-fee HSAs for consumers. I haven’t set one up through them, fwiw, but it looks promising.  [db]

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The second edition of Kelly James-Enger’s fabulous book Ready, Aim, Specialize was just released by Marion Street press, publisher of The Renegade Writer and other writing books. Here’s the scoop:

When you develop a writing specialty, you set yourself apart from other freelancers, save time researching and writing articles and command higher fees for your work.

Contrary to what you might think, you needn’t be a PHD, or recognized “expert” to focus your writing in a particular area. Your educational background, life experience, and interest in certain subjects can all be translated into a writing-related specialty.

Best of all, using your background and experience can help you get your foot in the door with editors, nab your first writing assignments, and build a lucrative career. In the second edition of Ready, Aim, Specialize! you’ll hear from dozens of talented, successful freelancers about how to break into the field, find and interview sources, develop relationships with editors, and treat your writing like a business. You’ll also find samples of 20 queries that nabbed assignments from new writers to use as templates for your own query letters.

You’ll also learn:

* Why you should develop a niche of your own and determine which areas of your background can be mined for writing ideas
* What the top ten writing specialties are and how to break into and write about each one
* How to better market your work and research and write more efficiently
* How to find sources, research, data, and experts for articles
* How to maximize your time and income—and make more money as a freelancer

Visit Kelly’s site for more information about it, or order through amazon.com or your local bookseller. [lf]

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One of my blog posts and an article I wrote for Writer’s Digest appear in The New Writer’s Handbook 2007. This book, which was edited by Philip Martin and published by Scarletta Press, is the inaugural edition of a new annual collection of articles to refresh and upgrade any writer’s skills, with advice on craft and career development. It offers an eclectic mix of expert how-tos, short pieces on creativity, marketing, and professional issues, and other insights on being a successful writer today. (There’s even a poem by Neil Gaiman in there!) If you’re interested, you can order the book on amazon.com .[lf]

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We just wanted to remind everyone about our new Renegade Writer e-Books store, where we offer e-books about freelancing. The books available there so far are:

Editors Unleashed: Magazine editors growl about their writer peeves: For this e-book, Linda interviewed ten (anonymous) editors of national and trade magazines about what writers do that ticks them off. Written in a Q&A format, each chapter includes tips on how to avoid becoming an editor’s nightmare writer. You’ll either laugh your butt off at what other writers do (like the one who gave her editor a chapstick with the writer’s name stuck on it)—or turn red when you realize that you’ve committed some of those same sins. Educational—and entertaining!

Resources for Health Writers: This e-book provides health writers with more than 95 top online resources to help them generate ideas and write queries and articles, including markets that buy health articles, news sites, organizations, expert directories, government resources, and more.

Please check out our new e-books! [lf]

Check it out! We just opened our Renegade Writer e-Books store, where we share important career information in e-book format. We did all the work—all you have to do is break out the PayPal! The books available there so far are:

Editors Unleashed: Magazine editors growl about their writer peeves: For this e-book, Linda interviewed ten (anonymous) editors of national and trade magazines about what writers do that ticks them off. Written in a Q&A format, each chapter includes tips on how to avoid becoming an editor’s nightmare writer. You’ll either laugh your butt off at what other writers do (like the one who gave her editor a chapstick with the writer’s name stuck on it)—or turn red when you realize that you’ve committed some of those same sins. Educational—and entertaining!

Resources for Health Writers: This e-book provides health writers with more than 95 top online resources to help them generate ideas and write queries and articles, including markets that buy health articles, news sites, organizations, expert directories, government resources, and more.

Please check out our new e-books, and check back often for new ones. [lf]