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How to Start and Run a Writing and Editing Business (Wiley Small Business Editions) [Paperback]

Herman Holtz (Author)

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Publication Date: April 1992 | Series: Wiley Small Business Editions

A successful professional freelance writer shows how anyone with basic writing ability can set up a full or part-time small business and make money providing writing, editing and editorial related services. Shows how to market newsletters, manuals, catalogs, brochures and proposals; describes methods of composition and production using desktop publishing and word processing techniques; and shows how to identify opportunities in business, government and the professions.

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Product Details

Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471548316
ISBN-13: 978-0471548317
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds

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This review is from: How to Start and Run a Writing and Editing Business (Wiley Small Business Editions) (Paperback)

This book is at least a decade behind the times, unless you really need advice on how to professionally organize your WordStar folders in MS-DOS, or download textfiles from CompuServe.

With that said: if you are prepared to ignore half the book, the rest is certainly worth the trip. Oh, well, no, you're not going to be able to read the book & instantly be transformed into a freelance editor & contract writer. But it has excellent advice on how to present yourself to potential clients, what to consider as far as your target market, and even hints as to when you want to "fire" (or avoid) a client.

Not an ending point, but a good place from which to start. There are very few books on editing & writing as a business.

Now if only someone would rewrite this book for the Internet age....

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