The Writer's Friend Editor's Note @ WritingNow.com
The Writer's Friend -- How to get published and paid. The book was edited by Guy Lancaster.
Persistence is not merely repeating the same set of actions with the hope of one day miraculously finding success. It involves a critical assessment of those actions and the willingness to change one's course, if need be.
If it is your dream to write and to be published, but rejections dash your hopes, do not give up. From my personal experience as an editor, I can tell you that a rejection is less a disparagement of the writer 's creative ability than the writer's marketing habits. The secret lies in finding your market, and to that end Kyle has surveyed literally dozens of editors from around the world to discover the best way to help you do this.
Editor after editor has confirmed that writers make similar mistakes when dealing with editors, and they lay bare what they do not like about writers' attitudes, habits, and submissions. This book is more than a collection of interviews with different editors -- it is a blueprint for building profitable relationships with editors that will last your entire writing career.
There is a Chinese proverb that says, "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for his lifetime." The Writer's Friend is a guide to building the necessary skill of marketing your writing in the publishing industry. While differences in topics and essence of presentation do, indeed, naturally exist from publication to publication, you can discover how to recognize those important differences by studying this book. Once learned, this skill will serve you as long as you continue writing.
The Writer's Friend can help you, but you must put into practice what it shares. Only then can it work for you. Let this peek behind the scenes with editors speed you along your path to becoming a writer whose works editors welcome again and again.
Guy Lancaster
Editor, The Writer's Friend
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