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Beginners' Guide to Writing and Selling Quality Features: A Simple Course in Freelancing for Newspapers, Magazines
A practical guide with journalism basics, cut & dried. Simple, concise, complete explanations on writing articles. Step-by-step realistic selling methods to ensure getting published. Dozens of ideas for articles. Answers to hundreds of beginners' questions. Warnings about common mistakes made. Analysis of good and bad articles. Exercises with answers. Key style rules. Insight into the unique language, form & structure of articles. Helpful anecdotes. Index and appendix with useful resources for getting published. This book is a Writer's Digest Book Club Featured Selection, and is truly a classic in the field for its instruction in simple techniques. This book is recommended as a writer's resource by numerous public libraries, including Pomona Public Library in California. It is recommended by various associations for authors, including Silence Speaks, an international association based in England, and by writer's clubs such as Sacramento Suburban Writers Club. It is also recommended by numerous authors of writing, public relations, and business books, including Dan Poynter in his book, Writing Nonfiction, and Larry Chambers in his book, The Guide to Financial Public Relations. This book appears on many business websites for business people who desire basic writing skills for publication. It is also a great book for people who work in public relations and who need to gain journalism skills in basic feature writing. Anyone can write and get published. You don't need any formal training. This book is useful for people of all walks of life. It's been used as a supplemental text at various universities. It is popular for stay-at-home mothers. The organization, Mothers At Home, This is the perfect book for a mother who has always wanted to try her hand at freelance writing. Learn how to use your know-how, education, and life's experiences to become a writer. Dozens of book reviewers have given it favorable reviews, as this book has allowed thousands of writers to grasp the basics of writing for publication and getting published. The author has also spoken to members of Moms in Business Network on writing to get published and she has been interviewed by Progressive Woman. The book covers frequently-asked questions that the author has answered in giving workshops to aspiring writers and in teaching/participating as a panelist at writer's conferences throughout the U.S. The book's author has also been a writer-in-residence at universities.
156 pages, Paperback
First published January 5, 1990
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About the author
Charlotte Digregorio
7 books14 followersCharlotte Digregorio received an Official Commendation from the Governor of her state in 2018 for her decades of accomplishments in the literary arts, and her work to promote and advance the field by educating adults and students alike. She is the author of seven books including: Ripples of Air: Poems of Healing; Haiku and Senryu: A Simple Guide for All; Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Homes; You Can Be A Columnist; Beginners’ Guide to Writing & Selling Quality Features; and Your Original Personal Ad. She is also the author of a poetry collection, Shadows of Seasons: Selected Haiku and Senryu by Charlotte Digregorio that is now available in The Appendices of Haiku and Senryu: A Simple Guide for All.
Her latest book, Ripples of Air: Poems of Healing, isn’t just a collection of her award-winning poems of many forms, but an inspirational book that engages non-poets and experienced poets to write as a healing exercise, just like people do journaling to heal. It has essays and prose passages on poetry and multiple resource lists that offer ideas on where to get published; teaching/speaking ideas; contest ideas; media interview ideas; and poetry reading and exhibit ideas. It also contains an exhaustive bibliography of poetry books and anthologies with healing poems.
Many of her books have been adopted as supplemental texts at universities throughout the U.S., Canada, India, Pakistan, and Catalonia. They are sold in 46 countries, and are displayed in major metropolitan cultural centers. These books have been reviewed, recommended, and praised by hundreds of critics, librarians, and professors worldwide.
Two of her books have been Featured Selections of Writer’s Digest Book Club. She is regularly interviewed by major print, radio, and television organizations throughout the U.S. She signs books at libraries, chain bookstores, and university bookstores, and does poetry readings at art centers, cafes, tea houses, and galleries.
She was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has won 56 poetry awards, writing 14 poetic forms. Her poetry has been translated into eight languages. She does illustrated solo poetry exhibits 365 days a year at libraries, galleries, corporate buildings, hospitals, convention centers, park districts, and other venues. Her individual poems have been displayed at supermarkets, apparel and wine shops, banks, botanic gardens, wooded parks, restaurants, and on public transit.
She was nominated and listed in “The International Authors and Writers Who’s Who” in Cambridge, England and in the “Who’s Who In Writers, Editors & Poets U.S./Canada.” She hosted her own radio program, “Poetry Beat,” on public broadcasting. Her poetry has been featured on several library websites including those of Shreve Memorial Library in Louisiana and Cornell University’s Mann Library.
Her background includes positions as a feature editor and columnist at daily newspapers and as a magazine editor. She was a public relations director for a non-profit organization. She is currently self-employed as a public relations/marketing consultant, having served a total of 118 clients in 23 states for the past several decades . In other professional areas, she has been on university faculties, teaching French, Italian, and Writing.
She regularly give lectures and workshops on publishing, journalism, publicity, poetry, and creativity to business and professional groups, and at writer’s conferences, universities, literary festivals, non-profit organizations, and libraries. She has been a writer-in-residence at universities.
There have been about 400 articles written about her in the media. She has served on the Boards of writers’ organizations. Her most recent positions were as Midwest Regional Coordinator of The Haiku Society of America, and subsequently, as its Second Vice President.
Her latest book, Ripples of Air: Poems of Healing, isn’t just a collection of her award-winning poems of many forms, but an inspirational book that engages non-poets and experienced poets to write as a healing exercise, just like people do journaling to heal. It has essays and prose passages on poetry and multiple resource lists that offer ideas on where to get published; teaching/speaking ideas; contest ideas; media interview ideas; and poetry reading and exhibit ideas. It also contains an exhaustive bibliography of poetry books and anthologies with healing poems.
Many of her books have been adopted as supplemental texts at universities throughout the U.S., Canada, India, Pakistan, and Catalonia. They are sold in 46 countries, and are displayed in major metropolitan cultural centers. These books have been reviewed, recommended, and praised by hundreds of critics, librarians, and professors worldwide.
Two of her books have been Featured Selections of Writer’s Digest Book Club. She is regularly interviewed by major print, radio, and television organizations throughout the U.S. She signs books at libraries, chain bookstores, and university bookstores, and does poetry readings at art centers, cafes, tea houses, and galleries.
She was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has won 56 poetry awards, writing 14 poetic forms. Her poetry has been translated into eight languages. She does illustrated solo poetry exhibits 365 days a year at libraries, galleries, corporate buildings, hospitals, convention centers, park districts, and other venues. Her individual poems have been displayed at supermarkets, apparel and wine shops, banks, botanic gardens, wooded parks, restaurants, and on public transit.
She was nominated and listed in “The International Authors and Writers Who’s Who” in Cambridge, England and in the “Who’s Who In Writers, Editors & Poets U.S./Canada.” She hosted her own radio program, “Poetry Beat,” on public broadcasting. Her poetry has been featured on several library websites including those of Shreve Memorial Library in Louisiana and Cornell University’s Mann Library.
Her background includes positions as a feature editor and columnist at daily newspapers and as a magazine editor. She was a public relations director for a non-profit organization. She is currently self-employed as a public relations/marketing consultant, having served a total of 118 clients in 23 states for the past several decades . In other professional areas, she has been on university faculties, teaching French, Italian, and Writing.
She regularly give lectures and workshops on publishing, journalism, publicity, poetry, and creativity to business and professional groups, and at writer’s conferences, universities, literary festivals, non-profit organizations, and libraries. She has been a writer-in-residence at universities.
There have been about 400 articles written about her in the media. She has served on the Boards of writers’ organizations. Her most recent positions were as Midwest Regional Coordinator of The Haiku Society of America, and subsequently, as its Second Vice President.
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