Jane Friedman

JULY 16, 2024

For years now, we’ve been told by agents and publishers, “Nice writing, but you need more platform to sell this book,” or “I’m not sure where this fits in the marketplace—what’s your platform?” Some authors worry about publishing “too much” of their story. You hear “platform” and think selling and shilling and sacrificing privacy.

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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. From the first copyrights to the present day, piracy has been a thread woven through the tapestry of publishing. In current parlance, they were self-published. Why pay to publish?

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Make a Living Writing

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This magazine published monthly is all about horses. A diverse literary magazine published three times per year and features poetry, fiction, and essays of promising writers. A literary journal, publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction quarterly. Rate: Prose: $10 – $100, Poems: $25 per piece. # 5 – Contrary.

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Jane Friedman

MAY 14, 2024

Amazon • Bookshop When my memoir Forces of Nature was on submission with publishers, one editor said she loved the story, but couldn’t get past the fact that I had written it in present tense. I respectfully disagreed (and sold the book to a different publisher who shared my vision).

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Make a Living Writing

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Literary Magazines Accepting Submissions in 2024 Literary magazines are periodicals, which are dedicated to publishing poetry, short stories, essays and more from writers at every stage of their careers. Here is a list of some of the best literary magazines accepting submissions for next year. Here are 18 now accepting submissions.

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The Write Life

OCTOBER 3, 2022

With thousands of dollars in cash prizes and numerous opportunities to secure a publishing contract, you’re sure to find the right free writing contest for your work. (If This boutique publishing firm offers cash prizes and promotional packages to winning authors. Deadlines: Quarterly on March 31, June 30 and September 30.

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 27, 2022

A great example is my good writer-friend Allison Landa, whose memoir, Bearded Lady: When You’re a Woman with a Beard, Your Secret Is Written All Over Your Face was finally just published by Woodhall Press after a 17-year (yep!) journey to publication, which had begun while she was still in the MFA program at St.

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Jane Friedman

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Try not to judge your initial draft by the standards of a finished one or published book. I regularly do three edit passes in working with an author or a publisher, sometimes more. One reason revision so often goes awry for authors is the temptation to focus first on perfecting the prose. Revision is a process—often a long one.

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Make a Living Writing

JULY 22, 2024

However, it’s not impossible to land poetry jobs, get paid for your prose, and even get a byline for publishing poetry. I’ve written poetry for a long list of publications, and ultimately published a book of poetry. The more you write and publish your poetry, the more you build up a portfolio of work.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Yet some brands are working with top comics creators and publishers such as Marvel Comics. OK, maybe writing this article as a comic script isn’t such a great idea, even if prose is at a disadvantage when discussing such a visual medium. Buddy, you can come back now. We work with them to get them up to speed pretty quickly.

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Jane Friedman

JUNE 20, 2023

Photo by Akhilesh Sharma on Unsplash Today’s post is excerpted and adapted from the recently published Build a Better Business Book: How to Plan, Write, and Promote a Book That Matters by Josh Bernoff ( @jbernoff ). Write the question and the objective, and you’re almost ready to write without pain. All you need is a fat outline.

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Grammarly

APRIL 9, 2024

A more definite reference appears in food testing records of the United States Department of Agriculture published in 1887. 5 Review your content for accuracy and proofread your prose. The easiest way to ensure that your work is original is to use Grammarly’s free plagiarism checker. 6 Add the citations.

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Jane Friedman

JUNE 20, 2024

Scholars generally have two very different venues in which to publish their work, and hence two different audiences as well. The editor’s work here doesn’t differ a lot from what it would be when editing any prose piece. Photo by Andrew George on Unsplash Today’s post is by writer, podcaster and editor Wayne Jones. Make it clear.

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Grammarly

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Or how Carolyn Keene keeps producing Nancy Drew mysteries ninety years after the first one was published? The works created by ghostwriters can be any type of published writing, including the following: journalism. literary prose. Some romance publishers pay just $65 per story. You’re not alone. magazine articles .

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Each of my published books was birthed from the pages of my notebooks and is peppered with snippets of dreams and morsels of dream wisdom. As you record dreams in your journal, you are creating an encyclopedia of plots, landscapes, characters, themes, and ideas you can return to any time you need material for your poetry and prose.

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Grammarly

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

To enhance your prose. ORIGINAL] Which blog was your article published in? REWRITE] In which blog was your article published? . However, be careful because some phrasal verbs also require an object, and it’s still incorrect to use them without one. I planned a movie night to help my friend get over. What is a preposition?

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 19, 2023

They said ebooks (especially self-published ebooks) were going to kill the printed word and put traditional authors, agents, editors, and bookstores out of business. Digital publishing-on-demand was disruptive, and the industry needed to adjust and adapt. But here’s the thing: it did. Yes, AI will cause disruption.

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A few weeks ago I began re-reading the short stories of another great American writer, Raymond Carver, whose fiction was published mostly in the 1980s and 1990s (the movie Short Cuts is based on his stories). There are scores of examples.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 23, 2024

I had wanted to get into prose poetry and brought three books with me on the subject…and touched none of them. You can spend 8 days and 7 nights with 25 fellow writers and publishing industry professionals in literary luxury, crossing the Atlantic on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2. I let that bucket go, and I let myself be okay with that.

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Grammarly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Sentence case reflects the way sentences are written in traditional prose. Title case is more commonly seen in formal writing, such as essay titles , published books, titles of magazine articles, and other scholarly works. Each type of case follows a specific style guide, which will confirm how to capitalize titles.

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Melanie Saxton

JANUARY 27, 2023

Article by Melanie Saxton Photography by Presley Daniel Originally published in The Woodlands City Lifestyle Elin Hilderbrand, a New York Times bestselling author, was a featured speaker at The John Cooper School’s 18th Annual Signatures Author Series fundraiser this past December. His most expensive 1st edition was signed by J.K.

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Smart Blogger

APRIL 14, 2023

Publish Personal Poetry Blog Blogging is a great way to make money if you know what you’re doing. Self-Publish Poetry Book Ever thought about putting your poems together into a book? Today, thanks to Kindle and Amazon, you don’t need a publisher — self-publishing is the new black. Plus it’s simple.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

JULY 7, 2023

Shooter Flash: Monthly Shooter Flash spotlights bitesize brilliance with one winning story each month, which we publish online (plus in an annual anthology) and trumpet on social media. Danuta Gleed’s first collection of short fiction, One of the Chosen, was posthumously published by BuschekBooks. The editors will judge.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

JULY 7, 2023

Shooter Flash: Monthly Shooter Flash spotlights bitesize brilliance with one winning story each month, which we publish online (plus in an annual anthology) and trumpet on social media. Danuta Gleed’s first collection of short fiction, One of the Chosen, was posthumously published by BuschekBooks. The editors will judge.

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Jane Friedman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

I never thought of myself that way, at least not until after reading the reviews of my first essay collection published over a decade ago. For starters, it has helped sharpen my prose. But am I a humor writer? What made something funny? How did the humor enhance the story? Where did I get in my own way?

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Quick Sprout

JULY 13, 2022

This is the system you will use to publish and maintain content online. Click on Publish when done. Here’s a quick checklist to ensure you’re adding the products correctly before hitting Publish. I highly recommend using bullet points to separate technical information from the prose. Install WordPress + WooCommerce.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 12, 2023

How authors might approach co-creating with AI if they want to work with traditional publishers What remains the same despite advances in technology: “Creative AI is going to change everything. Then I would each generate one sentence of a love story, and I published that in Lit Hub a couple of years ago now.

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Make a Living Writing

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

No age restriction for this competition, and both published and unpublished work are accepted. All 12 entries in total will have their work published online. #3 Deadline: 28th February 2023 Prize: Two prizes of $1500 will be awarded for a poetry collection, and a book of fiction published in the previous year.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

He burst onto the scene as a 23-year-old wunderkind, publishing his first book to breathless praise and a lucrative advance. And he discovered that when he read the beginning of his book, the prose didn’t pop. Remember Jonathan Safran Foer? But what stuck with me was the way he talked about how he found his first paragraph.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

No, it’s not about who has the right to publish a book or a photo (that’s copyright) nor is it just about writing blogs or social media posts, though those two can blur the lines of copywriting and marketing, depending on your goals. . Even in a blog post, like this one, longer prose can work. What, Exactly, Is Copywriting?

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 9, 2023

This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. She was publishing novels and poetry in the late 1920s, early 30s. Merryn: Thank you, Joanna.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Instead of setting the scene with lengthy prose, dive right into the meat of the copy by addressing your reader’s pain points. After all, publishing a book could take anywhere from weeks to years. Focus on making clear, concise statements. Let’s say you’re describing a gaming chair.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 30, 2023

Hundreds of books are published every year, and writers need criteria to craft their reading lists. Using language well is not the purple prose of overwriting, but the true beauty of choosing just the right word for just the right sentence—conveying meaning on more than one level. Whether or not that is true, art takes time.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. I had a bunch of publishing contracts, and they all went very badly. I don't know if I can release this book any better than these publishers, but I know for sure I can release them just as bad. You're kind of one of my gurus at the moment.

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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway — Atlantic City, New Jersey The Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway is a participant-focused writers’ conference. The getaway boasts challenging and supportive workshops, insightful feedback, and a supportive community.

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Smart Blogger

MAY 11, 2023

The term “content writing” covers everything that goes into planning, writing, editing, and publishing written digital marketing content. Write Like a Chameleon Much like some chameleon species can change skin color to match their surroundings, great content matches the place it’s published. Persuade with powerful prose.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

You hit publish, and the work’s all done. Just polish the prose and correct awkward phrasing. Thank him for his good work, and hit publish. He smoothes the rough edges, polishes the structure, tightens things up and tweaks until the piece is presentable. And your Visionary says, “That’s it! Check for typos.

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