You'll get:
- A Price Discount: Until January 1st, the book is only $19.95 - $5 off the cover price.
- A $250 Paid & Published Guarantee™: We're quite confident that you'll sell articles online with the help of this book, and we're committed to making sure you do. If you tell us that you ordered and read our book, sent out at least five queries to at least five different publications each, and didn't make over $250 from article sales, we'll provide you with: 1) a free copy of the 2009 edition of Online Markets for Writers; 2) a free editorial consultation to improve what we recognize is your strongest query and access to any of our personal contacts at targeted markets; and 3) a credit as a contributing writer in our 2009 edition to recognize your help in showing us how we can improve our book for writers.
- Free book updates for five years from your purchase date.
- Two Additional Free Ebooks for Writers: With your purchase of 2008 ONLINE MARKETS FOR WRITERS, you'll also get the 2008 editions of "TOP 202 FREE RESOURCES FOR WRITERS: Working writers share the free resources that have helped their careers the most" and "WORDS OF THE WISE: Working writers share the advice that's help them most."
2008 ONLINE MARKETS FOR WRITERS is available only through MarketsForWriters.com Press and only as an ebook (in PDF format, which is readable through Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free program probably on your computer already; you can also click here to download Adobe Reader for free).
Below we've provided back cover copy, and links to coauthor bios, reader review excerpts from Amazon.com, and a book excerpt, but feel free to contact me with any questions.
Thanks,
Anthony Tedesco
( t t [the "at" symbol] marketsforwriters.com - remove spaces)
BOOK UPDATES FOR PREVIOUS EDITION: For book updates to the previous edition published by Holt, send email to sub@ marketsforwriters.com (remove spaces) with "book updates" in the subject.
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The 2008 edition of ONLINE MARKETS FOR WRITERS is fully updated, expanded, and equipped with a $250 Paid & Published Guarantee™. Featuring free book updates forever, five new insightful sections and detailed pay-and-policy information for over 200 online markets, this insider's guide is a must-have resource for both new and established writers.
Since the first edition, the coauthors have become even more remarkably qualified to help writers tap this promising marketplace. They've been continually teaching and advocating for online writers - as contributors to The Writer magazine and seven of the last eight editions of Writer's Market (Writer's Digest Books), as expert guests on national television and radio shows, as guest lecturers in graduate writing programs, and as guest speakers for the nation's largest writer conferences, those of the National Writers Union, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and many others.
BOOK FEATURES ESPECIALLY FOR EXPERT WRITERS:
- Detailed profiles of the Top 10 places to publish online, based on pay and prestige;
- High-paying and high-profile online markets that no other book offers. We live/write in NYC, and are able to get listings from near-impenetrable editors because we know them personally;
- Proven tips on how to earn significantly more money from each piece sold online, culled from our own experiences as professional writers like you;
- The information and strategies you need to negotiate top electronic rates and rights, including vital contract clauses recommended by industry experts;
- Comprehensive market profiles with the details you need to make smart sales, including pointers from the editors and some confidentially provided insights from freelancers who've written for them;
- The book's new MarketSearch web supplement which allows writers to quickly find markets based on the multiple keyword criteria that's pivotal to their livelihood (e.g., "find markets that buy nonfiction pieces, and pay $1-$2/word, and accept simultaneous submissions").
- Detailed profiles of the 10 best online markets for new writers;
- A sample contract so you're prepared for what's out there;
- The means to stop giving away your work for "exposure" and start making money - many of our markets are content-hungry and eager to work with new writers;
- Our Get It Out Guide that will help even the most daunted of writers move from blank page to article selling in under three hours;
- Actual negotiation scripts to help you counter publishers;
- Authoritative advice on writing for the Web and e-querying, with sample queries you can follow;
- Spotlight interviews include how each writer sold his or her first piece to an online market;
- The only cyber terms and HTML you actually need to know.
Learn from the latest edition of a book that's already made it into the curriculum of college and post-grad writing courses nationwide, and onto the desks of thousands of professional writers around the globe. 2008 ONLINE MARKETS FOR WRITERS has everything you need to get published and paid - or to get published and paid more, and more often.
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