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The Ultimate Guide to Recycling Query Letters
By Krissy Brady. The best part of being a freelance writer is the freedom to build a writing career that’s wrapped around your specific goals and desires. Since it’s a process we all take on...
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Are You Under-Researching Your Queries? Here are 4 Ways to Create Queries...
By Linda Formichelli After critiquing hundreds of queries through my Write for Magazines e-course — and after receiving many unsuccessful pitches from would-be Renegade Writer guest posts — I’ve...
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Can the Query/LOI Hybrid Help You Break Into More Magazines?
By Linda Formichelli Should you try to break into that magazine with a quick Letter of Introduction (LOI) or a fully fleshed-out query? Sometimes, it’s best to do both. If you don’t have a lot of clips...
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“Lede” the way to more article sales
By Diana Burrell When I’m speaking at conferences, teaching, or chatting with other writers, I’m often asked how long I spend writing a query letter. The answer’s a little embarrassing: anywhere from...
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You Ask, I Answer: How Many Queries Do I Need to Send Out Per Week?
By Linda Formichelli During a Freelance Writers Den free teleseminar I hosted a few weeks ago, one caller asked: How many queries do I need to send out each week? This has got to be one of the top...
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How Mastering the Query Letter Will Change Your Life — and 6 Steps to Doing It
By Susan Finch I’ve been writing query letters since I was 19, when I sent out pitches to the likes of Penguin Press, assuming they would immediately buy my novel and scribble out a check for an...
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Here’s a Successful Query for a Surprising Sex Article–And 5 Reasons It Worked
Many writers ask me for examples of query letters that worked to land magazine assignments. You can get a packet of 10 queries that worked by signing up for my email list, and a Kindle copy of The...
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No Clips? Here Are 6 Ways to Convince an Editor to Hire You Anyway
Writers often ask me what to do when their clips are 10 years old, or are on topics that don’t relate to what they’re pitching, or are from non-paying publications. And I tell them, “You gotta use what...
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5 Ways to Fake Confidence in Your Article Pitch
By Diana Burrell You’ve spent hours–nay days–crafting a pitch letter for a dream market. You’ve researched what feels like every back issue of the magazine, and you know in your gut your idea is a...
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2 Ways to Make Sure Editors Are Impressed By Your Clips
By Linda Formichelli You’d think sending an editor a published clip or two would convince them that you can pull off the article you’re pitching. But guess what? An editor may actually be leery of the...
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If You Don’t Read Magazines, Don’t Try to Write for Them
The other day I was chatting with my Renegade Writer co-author, Diana Burrell, and she mentioned something that horrified me. Diana teaches the fabulous Become an Idea Machine workshop that’s helped...
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How I Broke Out of a Freelancing Slump by Breaking all the Rules
This post is by Deb Mitchell. I’m definitely more of a “rules are there for a reason” than a “rules were meant to be broken” kind of girl. It just never occurs to me to buck the system, and frankly,...
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How to Get the Most Mileage — and Money — Out of Your Writing by Double-Dipping
By Tiffany Jansen Have you seen the Seinfeld episode where George accompanies his girlfriend to a funeral? It?s post-wake and everyone?s at her parent?s place noshing on hors d?oeuvres and sipping...
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When in Doubt, Pitch
12101Right now we’re in the middle of a session of my Write for Magazines class, and I’m getting these questions/statements a lot from students: How much should I research a magazine before I know it’s...
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I created this Query Writing Checklist for you…and it’s super cheap!
0100Whether you’re pitching your idea to a magazine, a website, or a blog — there’s so much to think about and remember when you write and send a query letter: Is my idea timely? Is my idea relevant to...
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Can You Kill a Query in 5 Words? Winners + Hilarious Tweets!
0094So the other day my husband Eric, who’s the news editor over at BoardGameGeek, told me about a board game publisher that created fun Twitter games like #BoardGameBand, where tweeters would come up...
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PODCAST: Earning Income as a Freelance Writer…and Respecting Your Worth
0022I’m VERY excited that actress-turned-podcaster Yin Chang interviewed me for her iTunes “New & Noteworthy” podcast 88 Cups of Tea! Tune in to learn: The big differences between query letters for...
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