The Writer's Friend - Chapter One @ WritingNow.com
The Writer's Friend -- How to get published and paid. Chapter one is available online as a sample of the content offered by the book.
Chapter 1.
Finding Encouragement
By Linda Davis Kyle
If it has been your dream to write and to be published, yet you have had no one to support you, The Writer's Friend: Behind the Scenes with Editors is for you. It is my goal to help steer you away from calamities with editors. The step-by-step basics that I share about dealing with editors can help you to receive your first byline and to develop as the writer you aspire to be.
If you have been published in national magazines and would like to begin querying and submitting to international publications, this book can guide you, too.
TWF is perhaps the first book to show how magazine editors view writers and how editors would like writers to change. More than 40 editors from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, South Africa, Bahrain, Australia, and New Zealand have confirmed the need for this book and have explained what writers must know and do to succeed. While I have paraphrased some of their materials to prevent the creation of a mere chain of quotations, I have shared verbatim much of what the editors report to unveil their passion for the writing profession and to point out their expectations.
In addition, authors Dan Auiler, Liz Carpenter, Ron Franscell, Sonia Pressman Fuentes, Lynn Grisard Fullman, Ralph Marston, Margaret McAlister, Fern Michaels, Robert Powers, Shara Rendell-Smock, and Robert J. Sawyer offer power-packed suggestions about the craft of writing and penetrating the publishing industry.
Having edited well over 4000 typescripts during my 18 years as an editor for The Journal of Chemical Education and having been a freelance editor and writer, I have seen the world of writing through the eyes of an editor and a writer. Along with a plethora of tips from editors and writers throughout the book, I also have included hints of my own and questions to direct you. The fundamental approach to writing and publishing presented here is only one of many. Use from this book what wins sales for you. It is my dream that this book will enhance your creativity and increase your productivity.
Together, Australian writer Nancy McAlary and I "put you in an editor's shoes" with our vignette, "A Day in the Life of an Editor," and McAlary shares some of her hints for writing short fiction. Technical writer Joseph Gregg -- author of Write Your Way to Riches introduces the lucrative world of technical writing in "Chapter 18. Finding out about Editors, Employment Agencies, and Technical Writers."
For your convenience, I have collected and presented the questions from the chapters in an appendix. In addition, I provide an index to make the book a handy reference.
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