Ready Aim Specialize

Offering established and novice freelancers suggestions on specializing, this handbook guides writers towards more successful careers. As this analysis demonstrates, when freelancers concentrate on one type of writing rather than being a general freelancer, they discover a lucrative niche in the writing market. Using the advice supplied in this reference, writers will be able to make more money, focus their careers, and learn a more effective way of freelancing. The book lays out the basics of 10 key markets--including health, parenting, and home and garden--and provides a series of interactive exercises to help discover which is the writer's best fit. Published writers and unpublished hopefuls alike will benefit from this valuable and informed guidebook.

"Send paper clips flying with your own miniature launcher! Step-by-step instructions are used in this book to demonstrate basic engineering and physics skills for kids."--

A guide to the names and specialities of American and Canadian publishers, editors, and literary agents includes information on the acquisition process and on choosing literary agents.

The Way of the writer is not always straight. Sharing 100 essential lessons, an expert shows how to unleash the inspired writer within, using the wisdom of the martial arts.

"Revised version of a paper delivered at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta Hilton and Towers and Atlanta Marquis, September 2-5, 1999"--T.p. verso.