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Writing for Trade
Magazines:
How to Boost Your Income by
$200 to $500 per
Week
by Kendall Hanson |
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| Hanson has combined his editorial and
freelance experience to show new writers how to develop and market trade
magazine stories to increase their opportunity to be paid for their work.
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PRAISE FOR KENDALL
HANSON:
"Writing for Trade Magazines is Engrossing,
Inspirational and a Great Reference! Take out your highlighter and notebook
before starting this book. Ken Hanson knows his subject and shares his detailed
writing and marketing information in an easy-to-read style. Even if you never
planned on writing for trade magazines, Hanson gives you so many good ideas
about this market that you'll want to jump into trade magazine writing by the
end of chapter 2! Add Writing for Trade Magazines to your DAILY reading list
for both inspiration and concrete ideas for making and selling materials.
-- Kathleen E. Kain, Ph.D., writer and publisher
This
is a great resource for writers! It is well written in clear and precise
language that makes for easy reading. The is a must-have for those interested
in writing for trade journals."
-- Anne P. St. John, Spokane,
Washington
This is so true! I've been writing on business topics
since 1991, and like all reporting, the important thing is finding the
appropriate sources, asking good questions, listening for the answers, and
telling the story with a balanced, genuine approach. Of course, the more
business features one writes, the better one gets at the process--practice
makes perfect."
-- Charlie Fletcher, Columbia, Kentucky
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Written by a former trade
magazine editor for McGraw-Hill, Writing for Trade Magazines: How to Boost
Your Income by $200 to $500 per Week explains
• What trade
magazines are and are not, the vast size of the market, and the challenges and
rewards for freelancers in this fast-growing segment of the publishing
industry.
• Who the thirty largest trade magazine publishers are,
and what magazines are the top in each industry.
• What trade
editors want; what they actually need; and how freelancers can provide
both.
• How to come up with the right idea, pitch it to the right
person, and get an assignment.
• How to find and interview business
professionals productively, and how to network to find mentors within an
industry.
• How to use research for trade stories to build
additional income through consumer writing and commercial writing.
• How to manage your writing business to make a profit.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
“If I had known 20 years ago what I
know today, my writing career wouldn’t have waited a decade to
begin,” says Kendall Hanson, author of a new how-to book, “Writing
for Trade Magazines,” published by Dixon-Price Publishing.
After
college, he spent a decade working a full-time job while he tried
unsuccessfully to place human interest articles and fiction in a variety of
national markets.
Now, though, Hanson has published more than a million
words in magazines devoted to specialized business topics, including more than
900 feature articles. “The techniques used for writing specialized
business articles still are based on solid writing skills, but the research can
be more demanding,” he says. “On the other hand, writing for trade
magazines opens up such a wide range of market possibilities that it seems
amazing to me how many non-fiction writers never consider the field.”
And best of all, he notes, is that a surge of growth in the trade
publishing field couple with cutbacks in staffing have left a large void for
freelancers to fill. “In my first year of freelancing, I had just one
rejection from a query,” he notes. “Compare that with trying to break
into consumer-oriented magazines and it makes you wonder why most writers start
there.”
A former editor for three McGraw-Hill regional trade
publications, Hanson says he had just two queries during ten years as an
editor. “Both queries were well written, but so far off the mark in terms
of what would interest my readers that they were unusable. Still, as staff was
cut back, I actually had to find freelance writers, request them to take on
assignments, and guide them to write a true ‘trade’ story.”
Hanson has combined his editorial and freelance experience to show new
writers how to develop and market trade magazine stories to increase their
opportunity to be paid for their work. “Once upon a time, trade magazines
were poor places in terms of pay. In today’s market, however, they are not
only competitive in rates, but overall may be ahead of the average consumer
magazines. Right now there are more than 10,000 trade magazines in North
America, and probably more than 18,000 internationally. That’s a lot of
opportunity to ignore.”
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