The Freelancer's Rulebook: A Guide to Understanding, Working With and Winning Over Editors (Story Line Press Writer's Guides) - Softcover

Hearn Hill, Bonnie

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9781586540128: The Freelancer's Rulebook: A Guide to Understanding, Working With and Winning Over Editors (Story Line Press Writer's Guides)

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ISBN 10: 1586540122 ISBN 13: 9781586540128

Publisher: Story Line Press, 2001

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*A new SLP Writers' Guide

Many books on the market teach how to write. This book teaches writers how to sell their work. Freelancers learn to think like editors. They learn how to contact the right editor for their articles and books. Editing examples, samples, lists of best publications and web sites for freelancers, and practical interviews with professionals like Helen Gurley Brown, Fran Hodgkins, and others make this latest Story Line Press Writers' Guide a sure winner. It's a book that every aspiring freelancer will want to have on the desk.

Bonnie Hearn-Hill has been a freelance writer for more than thirty years, a newspaper and magazine editor for more than eighteen years.

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Review:

Some guidebooks for freelance writers mindlessly replay rules that no longer apply. Others are exhaustive ... and exhausting. The (Expanded) Freelancer's Rulebook is, thankfully, neither of the above. Written by Bonnie Hearn Hill, a longtime editor (for the Fresno Bee) and freelance writer, the Rulebook is practical, down-to-earth, and short but not slight. "This is not a book about how to write," says Hearn Hill. "It's a book about how to sell." Her approach is to show freelancers how to think like editors. While her rules are straightforward--have original ideas, be reliable, provide clean copy, don't use squirrel stickers on your query letters--it is remarkable, really, how few freelancers follow them. Send your query or manuscript to "a real, live human," advises Hearn Hill, who counsels that the slush pile is "as cold, unappealing and unproductive as it sounds." Supply heads and subheads in the style of the publication. "Force yourself to cut everything that doesn't contribute to the overall focus of the piece." And as for multiple submissions? Go for it. "The editor who acts fastest wins," says Hearn Hill. "What is so horrible about that?" --Jane Steinberg

About the Author:

Bonnie Hearn-Hill has worked for twenty years as a contributing editor and columnist for the The Fresno Bee and Blue Dolphin Communications. Her work appears frequently in numerous literary and consumer magazines. Her previous books include Focus Your Writing, and Cesar Chavez: the Courage and the Power.

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