The Complete Article Writer: How To Write And Sell Magazine Articles
About this ebook
Writing for the magazine market is the easiest publishing market to break into. But only if you can come up with the right idea for the right market at the right time. The Complete Article Writer shows you how to do that, time and time again.
It also reveals how to maximise your article ideas: don’t write one article - write six or more!
The Complete Article Writer shows you how to analyse a publication to identify its readership and the freelancing opportunities within it. Then it guides you into twisting your idea so it appeals to the core readership and the most important reader of all - the editor.
With detailed advice about beginnings, middles and endings (the variety of different middle structures you can use to exploit your ideas further), along with other pieces of page furniture, including boxouts, sidebars and photos, The Complete Article Writer tells you how to offer an editor the complete package.
Discover how to pitch your ideas and sell your article first before writing a single word. Learn how to negotiate the minefield of publishing rights and keep control of more of your work. Master all this and you will become The Complete Article Writer.
Simon Whaley’s articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including: BBC Countryfile, Country Walking, Lakeland Walker, The Simple Things, Cumbria, Discover Britain, British Heritage, Writing Magazine, The People’s Friend, Coast and Outdoor Photography.
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About the author
Simon Whaley is the author of over a dozen books, including the bestselling One Hundred Ways For A Dog To Train Its Human (Hodder & Stoughton), which spent three weeks on the UK bestseller lists. More than 650 of his articles have been published in the UK and the USA, and his work has appeared in publications as diverse as Outdoor Photography, BBC Countryfile, Country Walking, SelfBuild & Design, Cheshire Life, Cumbria, The People's Friend and the Daily Express. For six years he had a monthly walking column in Country & Border Life, and he currently has the Business of Writing column in Writing Magazine. Simon also enjoys photography and many of his photos have accompanied his articles, and over seventy of his images were used to illustrate his book Best Walks in the Welsh Borders. Several of his other photos have been used by the national press and companies producing calendars. Simon is a tutor for the non-fiction assignments of the Writers Bureau's Creative Writing distance learning course, and is regularly asked to facilitate workshops and courses for writers' conferences and festivals. For more information about Simon visit: www.simonwhaley.co.uk
