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What’s on your end-of-year inventory?
Mattox/sxc.hu By Pat Howard As 2011 winds down and we gear up for the challenges ahead, it’s a natural time to take stock, looking back as well as forward. It may be a bit early to make New Year’s...
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Who pays freelancers for time off at the holidays?
robina/sxc.hu By Pat Howard With the winter holidays fast approaching, are you excited about that paid time off you’ve got coming? What about a Christmas bonus? Of course you’re not, unless you’ve got...
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Filling the blank pages of 2012
As you can see, I am a writer, not a photographer. By Pat Howard As writers, we are all too familiar with the blank page staring back at us, cursor blinking judgmentally. Right now there’s a blank...
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Do print books cost too much?
by Tiffany Jansen Why do print books cost so much? It certainly can’t cost that much for a bit of paper, ink, and cardboard. No it can’t. And it doesn’t. But the price on the back cover of the book in...
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What’s up with the prices of e-books?
by Tiffany Jansen Last Friday, we dicussed the cost of print books. Why do they cost so much and where does all your money go? Reader Michelle Baker made an extremely good point in the comments: “It...
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Content Mills: the not-so-good, the bad, and the ugly
By Tiffany Jansen Content mills tend to get a bad rap in the writing industry. Some publishers, editors and agents won’t take you seriously if you include your content mill work in your pitch. Many...
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Freelancer/Client Relationships: Keep The Fun, Automate The Rest
by Shakirah Dawud Joanne Cleaver, 30-year veteran freelance journalist, editor of Business Toolkit Series’ “Find and Keep Customers For Your Small Business,” freelance journalist, and strategic...
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Freelance Writers: Increase Your Income With Reprint Sales
By Angela Atkinson Looking for a way to boost your writing income without too much extra work? Consider selling reprints! A reprint is exactly what it sounds like–a re-publishing of a previously...
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How I’m breaking free from content mills and earning more
by Tiffany Jansen For the first two years of my freelance writing career, I worked for content mills. I took my work seriously and researched, proofread, and even interviewed in order to come up with...
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Lets Talk Money!
I don’t know about you, but one of the most difficult and stressful aspects of being a freelance writer is when you must talk about money with your client or a potential client. Maybe it’s just me, but...
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