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What do I do special as a writing coach?

I just woke up to a question/discussion on Linkedin’s Promocave: Carrie Golden, Citizen Journalist/Poetry Consultant to film-makers at Motionpoems, Inc., asked: Writing coach… Not sure if this group [Promocave] is the right place to post this question but…what exactly does a writing coach do to help writers? ——————- I wear two hats (on one head): […]

Thursday September 29th, 2016 in 1 Shopping Cart, article selling, article writing, articles, Blurb, book title, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, empire, empire building, first draft, freelance articles, Gordon Burgett, humor in articles, iBook, iPad, Kindle, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche publishing, Nook, open publishing, proofreading, publishing, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, reprint of a rewrite, reprints, rewrites, second draft, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, writing | Comments Off on What do I do special as a writing coach?

Leading your idea in print down its most profitable path…

So you’ve got an article or book idea that you want to turn into both big money and widely-seen expertise presence. That’s the way to think! I’d also add that the copy needn’t be completely rewritten again and again, so also think reprint, rewrite, reprint of rewrites, and more… Let’s say you want to write about the […]

Thursday September 15th, 2016 in Amazon.com, article selling, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, freelance articles, Gordon Burgett, humor in articles, LSI, Lulu, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche publishing, Nook, Nook Press, open publishing, public speaking, publishing, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, reprint of a rewrite, reprints, rewrites, self-publishing, sidebars, simultaneous submissions, speaking, travel writing, writing | Comments Off on Leading your idea in print down its most profitable path…

Selling one article topic to 5-8 different publications!

“Could you sell the same text, unchanged, to both magazines and newspapers?” is the most often asked question at my writing seminars! I suppose you could, but I wouldn’t because I wouldn’t know how to unravel the rights issues. Anyway, it’d be far more profitable with a lot less work just planning five to eight […]

Wednesday February 10th, 2016 in Amazon Author Central, Amazon.com, article selling, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, e-publishing, editing, freelance articles, Gordon Burgett, Kindle, Kindle, magazine articles, open publishing, publishing, querying for article sales, reprint of a rewrite, reprints, rewrites, sidebars, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, travel writing, Word Press, writing | Comments Off on Selling one article topic to 5-8 different publications!

Article you’re submitting need a sidebar? Here’s an example…

Typically, as I write a “go-ahead” article, I encounter some additional facts that are so spectacular or unique I think they would make an interesting sidebar or box, in or near the printed article, to excite the readers and add much substance to the article without changing its primary structure. So I write and send […]

Thursday February 4th, 2016 in Amazon Author Central, Amazon.com, article selling, article writing, articles, cover notes, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, Gordon Burgett, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, magazine articles, Nook, publishing, reprints, rewrites, sidebars, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, writing | Comments Off on Article you’re submitting need a sidebar? Here’s an example…

Why was your article query rejected again?

Who writes articles in 2015? At least 1,486,000 writers had a journal article published in 2010. Some were written by two or three authors. And that’s just journals. And that was five years ago. 2,000,000 blog posts will be written today. Today. Another 2,000,000 tomorrow, and so on… The difference is that articles must be […]

Wednesday April 22nd, 2015 in article selling, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, freelance articles, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche publishing, publishing, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, reprints, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, webmarketing, Word Press, writing | Comments Off on Why was your article query rejected again?

How you can sell your articles 150% of the time…

I know, 150% of the time? Yes, it could be much, much higher, but it seems imprudent to scare you in the title. Let’s focus on magazines here, where the pay is higher and acceptances are harder to get. (Selling newspaper travel is easier and the possible sales ratio is higher too, but the pay […]

Wednesday March 11th, 2015 in article selling, article writing, articles, blogging, digital publishing, editing, first draft, freelance articles, humor in articles, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, reprint of a rewrite, reprints, rewrites, second draft, simultaneous submissions, travel writing, writing | Comments Off on How you can sell your articles 150% of the time…

4 proven ways to sell 75%+ of your freelance writing

MAGAZINES and NEWSPAPERS   1. Here is the two-item formula for selling nonfiction copy to magazines and newspapers: (a) You sell more than 75% of your freelance writing by writing only when you have better than a 50% chance of a sale, and (b) You have better than a 50% chance of a sale by […]

Friday February 20th, 2015 in article selling, article writing, articles, blog, cover notes, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, empire building, fiction, freelance articles, iBook, iPad, Kindle, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche marketing, niche publishing, Nook, novel writing, open publishing, pre-testing, proofreading, publishing, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, reprint of a rewrite, reprints, rewrites, self-publishing, seminar income, simultaneous submissions, small publishers, Smashwords, webmarketing, writing | Comments Off on 4 proven ways to sell 75%+ of your freelance writing

Profits from reprints, rewrites, and reprints of rewrites

As long as you have written a fetching article that an editor wants readers to read on his/her pages, why not sell the same blend as reprints, then mix the same magical facts, quotes, and anecdotes into a rewrite or two with different slants? You could even sell some reprints of the rewrites later on! […]

Wednesday January 21st, 2015 in article writing, book title, cover notes, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, empire building, freelance articles, Kindle, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche publishing, querying for article sales, reprint of a rewrite, reprints, rewrites, self-publishing, sidebars, simultaneous submissions, travel writing, webmarketing, writing | Comments Off on Profits from reprints, rewrites, and reprints of rewrites