Writing Articles and Newsletters - The Easy Step by Step Guide

by Pamela Brooks

What makes a successful newsletter? How do you structure an article that people want to read? How do you secure a commission from a magazine? This guide will show you: how to open articles how to make them flow and use good closing paragraphs how to use case studies where to find experts and how to interview them how to write the article up how to approach magazines to secure a commission how to design and layout newsletters. ' This book combines practical clear advice on how to contruct and write material as well as excellent guidance on marketing your work.' Suitable reading for anyone wishing to enter the freelance writing field as well as those working within organisations who need to produce newsletters and articles.

100 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2002

About the author

aka:
Lucinda Chester, Evelyn D'Arcy, Chelsea Miller, Pamela Rochford, Kate Hardy

Pamela Christine Brooks was born on 11 Febrary 1966 in Essex, England, UK. She always loved books and could read before she went to school. She always knew that she wanted to be a writer, and her parents bought her a proper typewriter for her sixth birthday. (She's still a six-finger typist, though….) Her first stories were all about ponies or outer space, but then she discovered Mills & Boon when she was 12 and decided this was what she wanted to do.

Following a degree in English, she started work as an accountant, and hated every second of it! All the clients asked why she wasn't working in PR—so she went into marketing communications for the next 10 years. In between studying for two sets of professional exams, she continued to write short stories and novels. And her husband, Gerard, supported her every step of the way, even buying her first computer for her!

When her son, Chris, was born in 1997, she decided to go freelance so she could spend time with her baby. She became a health journalist and copy editor but never lost her love of romance. When she was pregnant with her daughter, her husband suggested combining her two loves by writing medical romances. She started reading them and was instantly hooked. (She claims they were her craving when she was pregnant!) At six weeks old, Chloë spent her first Christmas in the hospital with bronchiolitis. The only way she could cope was to pretend it was happening to someone else—so she started writing A Baby of Her Own in longhand at Chloë's bedside. Her agent liked the first three chapters. So did Mills & Boon. The final manuscript was accepted on Chloë's first birthday, and published on Chloë's second birthday in 2002, under the pseudonym of Kate Hardy. In 2008, her novel, Breakfast at Giovanni's, won the Love Story of the Year by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

She lives just outside Norwich in the east of England with her husband, Gerry, their son and daughter and two mad spaniels. When she isn't writing medical romances or health articles, looking after the children or raising funds for Chris's school and cancer research, Kate enjoys relaxing with the family—going to the beach, playing games, reading stories and watching films. She also loves cooking (but not the dieting that goes with it) and she reads a lot. She'd quite like to try rappelling, parascending and scuba diving, but as she's terribly clumsy, she thinks it's much safer to let her heroines do it for her….

Reviews

[Beate · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has some good points, but for the most part is kinda 'meh'. I didn't pick up many new things - which is what I was looking for. To learn new things. I won't be going back to this book for quick reference any time soon.

[Pashew · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was trying to prep my self for a new job, but it seems that I was not given the position!