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Shorts: A Gateway into New Markets [Paperback]

Colleen Foye Bollen (Author)
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December 1996
Stop accumulating rejection letters for feature-length article ideas. Magazines are moving toward shorter pieces and you can too. Shorts: A Gateway Into New Markets, the only book focusing on short articles, will teach you how to break into national and regional publications with short articles. This book outlines proven techniques on how to: condense volumes of material, cut unnecessary words, use strong verbs, limit adjectives, develop a solid focus, and stick to the assigned word count.

Instead of fighting the trend toward short articles, use it to your advan tage. Shorts: A Gateway Into New Markets explains how writers and editors both benefit by starting their working relationship with short articles and offers strategies for targeting specific publications. With this book you can maximize your writing time and monetary rewards by learning to transform short articles into other money making ventures.


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From Scientific American

Shorts: A Gateway Into New Markets - A Shoreline writer's guide to breaking into freelance writing markets by keeping it short: 50 to 800 words.

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Shorts: A Gateway Into New Markets is right on the mark. Author Colleen Foye Bollen's one sentence says it all. . . editors are more receptive to unfamiliar writers queries on short articles than they are to feature length article ideas. This book gives good, practical advice, especially on rewriting, reading your article out loud, and having another set of eyes look at it. And Bollen practices what she preaches by writing a short book, with short chapters, and short sections each under their own subhead. I would recommend this book to beginning writers and any writers who have been receiving rejection letters. And I will recommend it to my writer's group. -- Judy Fleagle, Editor, Northwest Travel Magazine

Product Details

  • Paperback: 68 pages
  • Publisher: Turtle Island Pr; 1st edition (December 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0965438406
  • ISBN-13: 978-0965438407
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,091,507 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great "how-to" source for beginning writers, November 7, 1996
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"Shorts: A Gateway into New Markets" provides the beginning writer with an excellent how-to guide for determining what makes a article sell, how to reach a particular audience, and how to market your ideas to publications. The author provides samples of eye-catching paragraphs and describes her own writing successes in an easy-to-read style making it a must for anyone wanting to break into the competitive shorts market.
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