Nick Ursborne

APRIL 21, 2023

I’ve been using GPT as a brainstorming buddy, a research assistant, a first draft copy and content writer, a social media writer… and more. This time I asked GPT-4 to write me a 40-page Kindle book I could publish on Amazon. The book was published on Sunday evening. Honestly, it’s incredibly good. How long did this all take?

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“I have no idea where my book is published.” These are just a few of the comments I’ve heard from authors sharing their experiences with the hybrid publishing companies they’ve chosen to work with. So if you’re an author starting out on your publishing journey, it’s important to know what to look out for. What royalties?

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 1, 2025

I was editing my third novel, Finding Imogene , on August 7, 2023, when the news broke that publishing-industry guru and nonfiction author Jane Friedmans name had been stolen and plastered across AI-generated books on Amazon and Goodreads. Before I became an author-publisher in 2018, I was a C-level executive assistant.

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Jane Friedman

MAY 17, 2023

Likewise, publishing independently sounds like a confusing marathon without any guarantee of actual sales. I decided to publish the book independently so that Gidon’s dream would come true while he could enjoy it. We had no idea what we were doing but figured that #booktok could help us sell more copies. And it did at first.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 31, 2023

Photo by karina zhukovskaya Note from Jane: In the earliest days of my career, I served as managing editor of Writer’s Digest magazine, and one of the nicest parts of my job was calling up winners of our writing contests, including the National Self-Published Book Awards. My dream of literary stardom had cost them plenty.

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Copywriter Collective

JANUARY 10, 2025

AI is cranking out copy faster than Hunter S. Back in November, we published an article discussing the use of copy in the Tech industry. So, in the end, their copy doesnt actually tell you anything about the brands identity nor the purpose of the services theyre pushing. But let’s take a moment to be positive.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 28, 2024

Over the last several years, I’ve spent oodles of time submitting short stories, essays, poetry, and novels to literary magazines, contests, and publishers. We’re talking scores of hours devoted to searching, formatting, and submitting my stuff directly to the publishing gods (I’m excluding agents). Well, it’s simple, really.

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Credible Content

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Step-by-step guide to writing better copy. Joseph Sugarman is one of the greatest direct marketing copywriters who started his mail-order business JS&A and sold multiple revolutionary products by publishing long ad copies that converted like crazy. There were less distractions when Joseph Sugarman wrote his copy.

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Jane Friedman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

They sent out hundreds of advance review copies. The editor who took over, more interested in publishing nonfiction than fiction, politely passed. Published by Akashic Books, part of their Noir series, Denver Noir was the best group project I ever did. I asked her straight out, “Is this book publishable?

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 19, 2024

Two of these lists focus on self-published books exclusively (print format and ebook format), and a third list looks at both traditionally published books and self-published books (print format), but excludes Big Five publishers and other major houses. Six weeks to publish a book, that is blazingly fast.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 7, 2025

per page, and theres no guarantee that a book will sell enough copies to earn back that fee. There are good reasons for these long-standing publishing traditions. Too many books are published with charts and graphs that makes them look amateurish, unprofessional, and are often difficult for readers to understand.

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Make a Living Writing

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Looking to get into the writing and editing industry, but not sure if you should become a copy editor? Proofreading and copy editing both fall under the umbrella of editing, and if you like to edit work you might end up doing both. However, copy editing requires its own set of skills and rules, which we will cover in this article.

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Income Diary

DECEMBER 24, 2023

For me, the most impressive aspect of this is how Clive uses ChatGPT to critique his own already great copy to produce something exceptional. (He How To Use ChatGPT To Critique Your Sales Copy and Get More Clients By Clive Cable I recently wrote some landing page copy to launch a new ad agency. Automotive Technician versus copy.

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Make a Living Writing

MARCH 11, 2024

When it comes to proofreading vs copy editing, it might seem like they’re one in the same. If you’re trying to find a job in the editing industry, you’ll need to know the difference between proofreading and copy editing. Generally, copy editors do a complete in-depth analysis of a piece. What is Copy Editing?

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Nick Ursborne

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Freelance and in-house writers are relying too heavily on AI tools like ChatGPT to write their sales copy, content, and social media updates. The more people use these lists of prompts, the more they are adding another layer of “sameness” to their copy and content. Your adding something different to that copy. The result?

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In children’s and upmarket historical literature, the current social context goes a long way in getting your novel acquired and selling copies. From beginning to end, writing and publishing a novel is all about telling a story and connecting to readers.

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BKA Content

JANUARY 14, 2025

Copy and paste the prompt into the tool, replacing the placeholders with your competitors URLs and your contents URL. Use these insights to outshine competitors, boost your rankings, and maximize the impact of every piece you publish. Submit the query and review the recommendations. Ready to level up your SEO? Lets make it happen.

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Make a Living Writing

DECEMBER 10, 2024

While the list of companies actively soliciting copy-only submissions is short, the stack of dollar bills you have the potential to earn with these companies is fairly tall. You don’t want to send jokes so filthy they would make your grandma faint to a company that publishes inspirational poems about the nature of friendship.

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Backlinko

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Hit Publish to proceed as is or Go to regenerate to start again. Use the copy button to choose where to paste the text, or click Replace and close to insert it where the cursor is positioned. Then, click Compose to generate more copy. Then, enter your topic and hit Start writing. Then click Create article.

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Nick Ursborne

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Back in 1995 I published my first website. Is the copy and content created by ChatGPT perfect? So don’t be surprised if companies leap at the chance to use these tools to create copy and content for pennies a page. Next steps for digital copy and content writers. That includes us, as copy and content writers.

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Backlinko

JULY 12, 2024

Such as copying it, creating a QR code, saving it, and more. Then, click “ Copy image address ” to get the link for your search query. Then, find the result with the oldest publish date to identify the original creator. In this example, the oldest published data is for a Shutterstock page. Right-click the image.

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Write Freelance

JANUARY 21, 2023

The course focuses on helping you improve in different elements such as character development and plot. As part of the book writing training, you’ll learn how to self-publish a book on digital platforms like Amazon. The goal of the course is to give you skills in short story writing, fiction writing, creativity and copy and editing.

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Nick Ursborne

MAY 27, 2024

People get excited by how AI models like ChatGPT make it easy to create copy and content at scale. They’ve been trained on all the knowledge published online, almost every book and paper ever written, and so on. You can copy and paste tens of thousands of words into the context window and ask for a 500-word summary.

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Make a Living Writing

DECEMBER 2, 2024

They also publish poetry. They publish both shorter features (300-600 words) and full-length stories up to 1,500 words. They publish articles that highlight particular authors, artists, and ministries; reviews of newly published books, music, or movies; and in-depth feature stories of up to 2,600 words. word and up 2.

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Jane Friedman

JULY 2, 2024

Today’s post is excerpted from The Untold Story of Books: A Writer’s History of Book Publishing by Michael Castleman. They identified material fit for reproduction and offered favored printers the exclusive right to copy it— “copyright.” Printers were appalled: Authors wrote, printers copied. The right to copy was theirs.

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Nick Ursborne

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

But, as most of us know by now, you can’t just type in any prompt and then publish ChatGPT’s first draft. All their copy begins to feel the same. And no company wants that… they want their copy and content to sound unique. By providing AI Content Creation Services, you can help your clients in a number of ways.

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Elna Cain

MARCH 7, 2025

Plus, small businesses are turning to AI tools for things like simple blog posts and website copy. Link to two strong writing samples published is preferred and as long as you have permission to share the work, it counts. These were freelance writing jobs that didn’t pay well and didn’t value the writer.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

APRIL 13, 2025

Even if your client has editors who will review your work prior to it being published in whatever medium it will be used, you want to be sure that you are sending in something that shows your best work. You can always save a copy of your original document that you can revert to if you dont feel entirely certain about making changes to it.

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Buffer

AUGUST 27, 2024

Let’s say you have an editorial calendar in Notion where each entry represents a piece of content you’re planning to publish. You can even customize the Zap to only trigger if the entry has a specific tag, like "ready to publish," ensuring your social media stays aligned with your content strategy.

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Make a Living Writing

JANUARY 2, 2025

There are no published guidelines for pitching, but they’ve paid $0.27 LiisBeth LiisBeth publishes content focused on feminist entrepreneurs, creators, and leaders committed to gender equality. New York Magazine Pulitzer Prize winning New York Magazine is one of the better online magazines that pays and publishes freelancers!

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Elna Cain

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Pitch email guideline example of what not to pitch Atlas Obscura specifically lays out what they don’t want and things they will never publish for their magazine. Keep Copies It’s a good idea to keep track of all the email pitches you are sending as well as the pitch idea or outlines. What can you do?

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Buffer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Aside : Some writers write the body copy (the content that follows the hook) of the social media post before the hook. Keep it simple—even a brief anecdote can grab attention without needing a full plot Social proof Social proof is when people copy the actions of others like them. And if you’re still stuck?

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Backlinko

AUGUST 7, 2024

For example, if you know the site needs on-page copy updates for a majority of its services pages, you could start with a five-URL test. That might mean focusing on a selection of URLs where the business stands to learn the most or see the largest impact (while mitigating risk). This will likely be easier to get stakeholders to sign off.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

How can you create a high-quality photo book and publish it on Kickstarter? But you're not on the travel podcast today, you're on the publishing podcast. One thing about taking photos, and especially publishing photos, is about photos of people. How do you market a beautiful, high-value book? So let's get into that.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Do you want to publish an image-heavy book like a cookbook? How can you navigate the challenges of photography, book design, and publishing choices to make the best product possible? So a lot of people do want to publish a cookery book, but let's go into each of the challenges one at a time. It's a bit strange.

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Elna Cain

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

You let your website copy stay the same even though you picked up a new service or skill and your portfolio page stays static without any new client pieces because…well you’re busy with client work! So, I can publish them on my portfolio or wait until I get more recent pieces.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

In the intro, investment firm KKR will buy Simon & Schuster [ Publishing Perspectives ]; Subscriber Surge Giveaways [ Written Word Media ]; Key Book Publishing Paths [ Jane Friedman ]. This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system.

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