Writer's Digest Handbook of Magazine Article Writing

THE Guide to Writing and Selling Magazine Articles!&break;&break;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:

find and query article ideas&break;
plan your research and interviews&break;
identify potential markets&break;
structure the most common types of articles&break;
work with editors&break;
negotiate contracts&break;
sell reprint rights&break;
be a successful freelance writer

&break;&break;Writer's Digest Handbook of Magazine Article Writing contains everything you need to successfully break into this popular market or to continue developing your magazine writing skills.

Customer Reviews:

Essential resource for freelancers

By H. Grove "Errant Dreams Reviews" - July 4, 2006

The "Writer's Digest Handbook of Magazine Article Writing" takes information from a wide variety of highly successful freelance writers and edits it together into a seamless instructional manual. It starts off with a discussion of finding ideas that addresses more than inspiration--it delves into methods to find topics that will sell. "Querying" and "Finding Markets" teach you to pick markets for your work and get assignments from them. "Selling Reprints and Rewrites" and "Business and Rights-Related Issues" help you to understand what your work is worth to whom, and how to make sure it remains worth as much as possible to you.

"Researching" and "Interviewing" get you through the information-gathering phase, which can take longer than the actual writing. "Avoiding Problems" helps you to avoid accidental plagiarism and similar legal problems. "Writing Techniques and Revision" deals with general issues of writing magazine articles, while "How to Write Common Articles" delves... read more

Good practical advice

By Liz It Is "liz_c549" - February 17, 2008

I had to purchase this for an online writing course. I didn't expect much. I have read about half a dozen other books on magazine writing that weren't required reading. But this book is really solid and doesn't meander aimlessly, like a couple others I've read. I'd first recommend Jenna Glatzer's book, but this is a good addition to your writing reference shelf.

Very very basic...save your $$$

By Amy Henry - January 11, 2011

Granted, this is a few years old, but it was likely out of date even then. The information in this paperback is readily accessible online virtually anywhere-you aren't getting anything exceptionally helpful or detailed. The information is so general that one would suspect it of fitting in more with a high school English class than for a freelancer. Additionally, you aren't given the contact information as Writer's Market supplies.

A few things: plagiarism is covered in 2 or 3 pages. Not only is it very basic knowledge, but it doesn't even explain the different styles of citation. "Editor" tips are also basic...a little bit of time on Google and you'd likely yield more precise information from better sources.

Save your money.... read more

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