Category: querying for article sales

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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…

A very new format for a seminar workbook…

In a now very long past—decades—I must have literally copied and carted 40,000 seminar workbooks (sometimes a half mile, too often up stairs). Most of those workbooks were 12-20 pages long! Too late to complain: that was the way it was done. But yesterday technology finally removed my shackles—and perhaps my blinders! Some fact-setting now, […]

Sunday June 26th, 2016 in Amazon.com, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, digital publishing, e-publishing, freelance articles, Gordon Burgett, Kindle, Lightning Source, magazine articles, niche marketing, niche publishing, open publishing, pre-testing, public speaking, publishing, querying for article sales, reprints, rewrites, self-publishing, seminar workbook, seminar workbooks, Seminaring, speaking, travel writing, writing | Comments Off on A very new format for a seminar workbook…

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!

Stretch one skinny article into five with minimal effort

How would you like to design one article to appear in five different magazines or newsletters that explains the benefits, through example, of your firm’s specialization and why they may want to know more about your services? The best thing: it’s pretty much the same article with a similar message, and the five articles will […]

Tuesday December 22nd, 2015 in article writing, articles, blog, blogging, cover notes, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, freelance articles, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche marketing, niche publishing, querying for article sales, reprints, rewrites, writing | Comments Off on Stretch one skinny article into five with minimal effort

Some thoughts about interviewing…

This is an excerpt (part of a chapter) from my coming book, Interviewing. I talk about tools and means used to interview: Interviewing is mostly you asking questions to a person or, rarely, a group, and receiving an intelligible response in return. When you record what you asked and what they replied, that is the […]

Monday November 30th, 2015 in 1 Shopping Cart, Amazon Author Central, article selling, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, fiction, freelance articles, humor in articles, Kindle, Kindle, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche marketing, niche publishing, novel writing, open publishing, publishing, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, reprint of a rewrite, reprints, rewrites, travel writing, writing | Comments Off on Some thoughts about interviewing…

Using humor to sell your magazine articles

Funny you should ask! One rule always: some editors/publications don’t use humor, so don’t even try. At best the editor may open her lips to chuckle (or groan), then reconsider and toss the query. I can’t tell you which such publications  to avoid because I don’t read them. But it used to be that the […]

Monday July 20th, 2015 in article selling, article writing, articles, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, emceeing, freelance articles, humor in articles, magazine articles, MC, newsletter writing, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, writing | Comments Off on Using humor to sell your magazine articles

Can you use a pseudonym for publishable articles?

Sure, I suppose in print you could call yourself Superperson or Cicero or anybody you want to. And if you own the publication, it might be fine. In fact, there are times when I would indeed use a pseudonym. Like if I was a deacon writing porno, rest assured I’d change my name. Or if a […]

Sunday May 10th, 2015 in article selling, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, freelance articles, humor in articles, magazine articles, publishing, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, speaking, travel writing, writing | Comments Off on Can you use a pseudonym for publishable articles?

What do you do if a promised article interviewee finks out?

If you are writing a one-interview piece, a sort of bio plus, and the fink is the purpose of the article, apologize to the editor as soon as possible. You needn’t make excuses for the person but do try to reschedule it right away… Since queries very often suggest interviewing three people to get differing […]

Tuesday April 28th, 2015 in article selling, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, editing, freelance articles, proofreading, publishing, querying for article sales, writing | Comments Off on What do you do if a promised article interviewee finks out?

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?