How to Make Money from Freelance Writing

by Andrew Crofts

Aimed at all aspiring writers, novelists and journalists, whether they want to write full-time or simply to supplement their existing incomes, this book may also benefit existing professional writers and journalists who want ideas on how to increase their incomes and find new markets. With a straightforward and practical approach, it covers topics ranging from the tools of the trade and how to get organized, to deciding what to write and how to sell it. The book deals individually with ghostwriting, travel writing, fiction, short stories, television and radio scripts, newspaper and magazine journalism, and interviewing. It explains how to overcome the inevitable blocks and barriers, and actually make some money. There is also information on agents, making contacts and using them, finding potential markets and getting commissioned.

176 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1833

About the author

Andrew Crofts is an author and ghostwriter. He has published more than 80 books, around a dozen of which have been number one bestsellers.

His name first became known amongst publishers for the stories he brought them by the otherwise disenfranchised. Travelling all over the world he worked with victims of enforced marriages in North Africa and the Middle East, sex workers in the Far East, orphans in war-torn areas like Croatia and dictatorships like Romania, and abused children everywhere.

The enormous success of these books brought many very different people to his door; first came the celebrities from the worlds of film, music, television and sport, and then the real elite in the form of world leaders and the mysterious, powerful people who finance them, arm them and, in some cases, control them.

Invited to pubic and private palaces all over Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East and tax havens from Monaco to private islands in Bermuda, Andrew listened as they revealed their secrets, gradually piecing together the truth of who really runs the world and how they do it.

The opening lines in Robert Harris’s thriller "The Ghost", (later made into a film with Ewan McGregor as the ghostwriter)' quote Andrew from his book, "Ghostwriting";

“Of all the advantages ghosting offers, one of the greatest must be the opportunity that you get to meet people of interest.”

Reviews

[Audrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good Book - but dosen't cover any area in any real depth but gives general guidance.