Saturday, September 27th, 2008
From Paul Lima's talk at Wordstock 2008, held at Ryerson University in Toronto:
There are two basic approaches to marketing your article ideas:
- Submitting unsolicited manuscripts (on spec)
- Querying (pitching ideas) by mail or e-mail.
This talk is about the latter, querying editors. To sell your ideas you need to pitch them ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
The information presented here is based on a talk Paul Lima gave to magazine and newspaper editors attending the MagNet conference held in Toronto, June 4 to 6, 2008.
About the session: Freelancer writers bring ideas, energy and words to publications. And there’s nothing that makes an editor’s job easier than ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Ideas, Inspiration and Dogs
Why every freelance writer should ABC (always be curious)
By Paul Lima
Author of The Business of Freelance Writing
I was a busy technology/telecom freelance writer during the dot-com boom. (Remember that?) When it went bust, so did many of my newspaper, magazine and corporate clients. Around the time of ...
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Saturday, May 19th, 2007
I was a busy technology/telecom freelance writer during the dot-com boom. (Remember that?) When it went bust, so did many of my newspaper, magazine and corporate clients. Around the time of the technology meltdown, our family added a new member - a Giant Schnauzer puppy. I walked the dog ...
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