Writer's Digest Handbook of Magazine Article Writing

by Michelle Ruberg (Editor), Ben Yagoda (Introduction)

THE Guide to Writing and Selling Magazine Articles! This comprehensive, practical, how-to guide answers all of your questions about writing for magazines. In this all-new second edition of a best-selling classic, today's most successful freelance writers, including Robert Bly, Linda Formichelli, Kelly James-Enger, Jenna Glatzer , and others, provide up-to-date information on e-querying, writing for digital media, knowing your e-rights, and the core topics of magazine article writing. You'll learn how to:

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction, Reference, Business

Paperback

Published December 26, 2004

Reviews

[Rasmus]

I plan on posting a longer review of this book over at rasmusrasmussen.com. Here is the gist:

If you have absolutely zero experience with working freelance, with professional writing of any kind and you haven't been following any blogs on the topic, googled it or anything like that, you might be able to learn a lot from reading this. For the rest of us, it's a whole lot of fluff, repetition and boredom.

[Kristen]

This is a good reference book to use when you want to break into freelance writing for magazine. It's pretty handy for ideas.

[JoAnn]

Very comprehensive, imformative,and practical, especially for the beginner. Read this before you start writing, if you are seriously thinking of freelancing as a new career path. However, since technology is constantly changing, and the economy is in a recession, it is best to keep updated on the market.

[Tamara]

Lots of good information for the begining freelancer. Takes you all the way from queries, formats, article styles to legal inforamtion such as contracts, rights and payments. It is a pretty quick read and entertaining as well. Not boring and drug out. I recommend this book for not only freelancers, but anyone in the writing field.

[Dana]

Here is the book teaching me how to write queries to magazines listing the articles I would like to write for them, and then chapters on how to deal with the massive amounts of rejection writers get before they finally crack into the market. Why am I doing this again?

[Kay Mcgriff]

My crash course in freelance writing is starting to pay off. This presents much information on getting ideas, querying magazines, conducting interviews & research, writing the article, and considering the business side of writing.

[Premiumgreen Vinnola]

Very thorough and complete.

[LeAnne]

Magazines aren't my think, but this is well organized and complete.

[Jennifer Grayeb]

This was a great resource for learning more about what it takes to write and publish magazine articles!

[Gregory Frye]

Very helpful for anyone interested in freelancing!

[Viktoria]

lot s of good advice, some are a little outdated though.

[Jane]

Reading this book got me thinking about writing ideas. Perhaps I should try my hand at this.

[Fredrick Danysh]

Advice on writing for magazines. Gives tips on topics ranging choosing a subject, to selling the article. It includes advice on conducting interviews and documentation.

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[Alan Livingston]

I think I got more out of this book through this re-read than from my first read a few years ago. Good reference on the subject that I'll keep at my fingertips in case I try some periodical writing.