Best Audios for Freelancers:

Kelly James-Enger's Audioseminar

Breaking In: The Basics of Freelance Writing

Would you like to write for magazines? While basic writing skills are essential, you must also know how to select and analyze potential markets, develop winning article ideas, and craft attention-getting query letters. This popular program will introduce you to some common magazine terminology and cover “basics” like how to find markets, come up with story ideas, and offer ways to nail your first magazine assignments. Includes outline with common magazine writing terms defined and a sample query letter.

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Six-Figure Freelancing: Tips to Help You Get There

Want to hit the six-figure mark as a freelancer—or simply make more for the writing you’re already doing? Learn the techniques successful freelancers use to command higher rates, crack top markets, negotiate for more money, develop ongoing relationships with publications, and work more efficiently and more effectively in this jam-packed workshop. You’ll come away with new insights about how to maximize your writing time and boost your bottom line in the process. Includes outline to help you identify personal goals and strategies that will work for you.

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Wendy Burt's "Breaking Into Freelance Writing" Workshop audio

The 3-CD audio set is a live recording of her most recent workshop (just over three hours) and is accompanied by a 34-page packet that includes sample article query letters, an agent query letter, greeting card formatting, definitions of rights, pages of resources for writers and more.

YOU'LL LEARN:
• The best ways to make money as a beginning freelance writer
• Finding markets for your work (articles, stories, essays, music/book/product reviews)
• Writing cover/query letters that work
• Reslanting articles for new sales (and more money!)
• Selling rights to your work (making $$ on the same piece)
• Writing and marketing greeting cards (fun and profitable)
• Getting assignments from editors
• Pitching story ideas to editors
• Important terminology and protocol
• The advantages of using an agent to sell your book (vs. direct to publisher)
• Writing an agent query
• The important components of a book proposal
• The truth about how much money authors make

INTRODUCTORY PRICE FOR WRITERS ON THE RISE READERS: $29.99

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ABOUT WENDY BURT:

A full-time freelancer, Wendy writes and edits for regional and national newspapers, magazines and greeting card companies. Her work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Writer, Family Circle, FITStyle by Bally Total Fitness, Complete Woman, Woman’s Own, Woman’s World, Byline, Writer’s Digest, Front Range Business, Grit, American Fitness, BlueSuitMom.com, Pizza Today, Newsday.com and Every Kiss by Kay Jewelers.

Wendy has been teaching "Breaking Into Freelance Writing" for six years, including an abbreviated version at the 2001 Pikes Peak Writer’s Conference.