Six-Figure Freelancing: The Writer's Guide to Making More by Kelly James-Enger

put out of your mind writing for the fun of seeing your identify in print, or worse but, for the “exposure.” Freelancers may be paid—and paid well—for their paintings. if you happen to dream of constructing a superb full-time residing or a moment source of revenue as a freelancer, you wish greater than writing skill. you wish a businesslike frame of mind, the power to find and pitch profitable markets, effective paintings conduct, and relationships with humans on your undefined.

During the author’s first yr of fulltime freelancing, she merely made $17,000. yet by way of her 6th 12 months, she cracked the six-figure mark. After interviewing dozens of different six-figure freelancers, the writer first released Six-Figure Freelancing: The Writer’s consultant to creating extra money in 2005. Now the book’s been revised and up-to-date for its moment variation.

Six-Figure Freelancing will convey you ways to:

•Take a business-like method of your freelance profession;
•Negotiate extra writer-friendly contracts with editors and consumers;
•Identify profitable freelance markets;
•Pursue booklet tasks;
•Create your individual writing templates;
•Work extra successfully;
•Create and hold relationships with consumers and co-workers;
•Set brief- and long term objectives to your writing profession;
•Branch into profitable new freelance components; and
•Sustain a profitable long term profession.

Now, in 2013, even whereas the economic climate has tanked and the publishing international has passed through dramatic swap, there are many promising possibilities for freelancers. This up-to-date, multiplied model of Six-Figure Freelancing comprises a completely new part on markets; suggestion approximately utilizing social media and running a blog to construct your occupation: extra pattern queries and templates, and the newest suggestion from winning six-figure freelancers you should use to maintain a long term freelance profession.

Author Kelly James-Enger has been a fulltime freelancer for greater than sixteen years; her paintings has seemed in additional than 60 nationwide magazines together with Redbook, Self, Runner’s international, health, and fogeys. A freelancing specialist, she’s the writer of books together with funds and closing dates: earn cash Writing Articles for Print and on-line Markets and author For rent: a hundred and one secrets and techniques to Freelance Success.