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Successful Syndication: A Guide for Writers and Cartoonists

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Multiply your efforts by publishing your work in several periodicals simultaneously. In 185 jam pack pages, Michael Sedge reveals how to find the right syndication agency and how to work with them. He provides submission guidelines and inside tips. You will discover how to submit your work and finally, how to run your business. Complete with addresses, contracts, forms and references.

After filling the initial need, find more needs and use the same fill. But automate your distribution with syndication. This book will guide the way. (...)

Writers and cartoonists who envision syndicating their productions will find Successful Syndication an essential guide to the process, with chapters telling how to locate and work with syndicates, how to create marketable materials and identify audiences, using the Internet to appeal, and submitting pieces for consideration. Essential for any seeking to syndicate work.

If you're serious about becoming a syndicated columnist or cartoonist, this book is for you. Sedge describes the process you will have to go through to make a professional submission. There are sample contracts and practical pieces of advice from professionals in the field.

In addition, Sedge provides resources in the form of various syndicates, both large and small, which could start someone on the path to syndication.

What I liked most about this book was that Sedge did not sugar-coat what syndication is like. Rejection is the norm, there are deadlines, and you have to be dedicated and prepared to put a lot of time and effort into your work. There is also a section on self-syndication for those bold enough to go it alone.

While time constraints and obligations do not allow me to be a full time syndicated writer, this book gave me my start and a good foundation. As a result, I have been published on opinioneditorials.com, Pakistan Today, Middle East News Online and the Los Angeles Times. Dreams do come true! This book will help.

Of the three books I have on newspaper syndication this is the most useful. However much content is dated.

John Culleton
Columnist, Carroll County Times & Eldersburg Eagle.

This is such a great book that I hate myself for recommending it, it provides so much insight into the world of syndication that it's the best book anyone interested in getting their material, cartoons or writting, can read.

It's not a get-rich-fast kind of book, actually is totally the opposite, it shows with cruel honestly the difficulties of getting your work syndicated, but also gives you great advice on how to conduct your "syndication business", yes, the best you will get out of this book is the understanding that Syndication is not about beauty, great art, funny punch lines, metric, grammar or anything but BUSINESS!!

I write a column for a newspaper; so this book's to help you syndicate things was welcome. But the author mentions nothing about the legal side of this adventure. Who owns what? What protections does each side want/need?

Sound, practical advice on the basics of getting syndicated. Especially useful for people who have no clue where to even begin.

A real nuts and bolts book. This engaging, well written book tells the real story of the hard work involved in syndication.

While it lays out the challenges point blank, solutions and encouragement are there as the antidote.

I read the book in two days gaining information which I put into practice. This book is worth the money to anyone who is serious about syndicating. And for the less serious, it offers plenty of information to aid in the "syndication" decision: "Am I nuts enough to go for it, or should I bolt."

It's hard to take advice (however well footnoted) from a hack.