Tickle Their Funny Bone By C. Hope Clark

Tickle Their Funny Bone By C. Hope Clark
Tim Bete, humor writer and coordinator for the annual Erma Bombeck's Writing Workshop, teaches that to become a paid humor columnist, you need to submit your column to someone who will pay you...

Niche Topics in Embarrasing Problems
Are you running out of niche topics? Here is another great resource site for searching lucrative niche topics. EmbarrasingProblems.co.uk provides list of health related topics that are too sensitive for public discussions. Once you get to the site, you will find a small box with scroll on the left side. Scroll down the [...]

Business Blogs Good For Seniors As Personal Marketing And Visibility Enhancer...
Blogging can prove to be an effective and highly rewarding business strategy for senior executives and retired professionals who want to keep themselves involved in their field of interest. Photo credit: Fred Goldstein Blogs can indeed be effective instruments for......

A Lesson Learned from My Wife
Back in April of last year, after I got married, my wife pointed out a unusal habit of mine. I didn’t like to carry coins in my pocket, so at the stores, I either gave them away in a donation box, or just let the merchant keep the coins. My wife was getting [...]

Publisher's Desk For April 19th
~ONLY 10 DAYS AWAY AND ALREADY 60% FULL!!~ Start time for the Spring 2006 24-Hour Short Story Contest will be at 12:00 p.m. (noon) central time on Saturday, April 29, 2006! Participation is limited to 500 entrants. Contests always fill up, so don't delay if you want to participate! You can see the list of prizes (first prize is $300) and sign up here: http://www.writersweekly.com/misc/contest.html ~This Is A Great Article By Lorelle VanFossen!~ What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/10/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-content/ ~Self-Published Books~ Dan Poynter discusses this topic on his radio show. Listen here: http://www.jackstreet.com/jackstreet/KPNT.E1.cfm Features Bobbi Ann Chukran, author of Lone Star State of Death published by Booklocker.com. ~NEW CLASS! How To Write A Cookbook And Sell It!~ Learn insider's tips of the trade through this course from a professional who has enjoyed more than 15 successful and profitable years in the cookbook and culinary industry. The instructor, Mara Reid Rogers', has written nine cookbooks, several of them main selections for national book clubs. For more info. or to sign up, see: http://www.writersweekly.com/wwu/courses/cooking.html ~NEW CLASSES START MAY 1ST!~ + Remember, Write And Publish Your Life Story + The Art of the Press Release (3-week mini-course) + Marketing Boot Camp For Freelance Writers + Cash in on Newsletter Writing and Publishing + Cash In On Teens And Tweens! + Negotiate Your Way to Higher Pay + Writing As Healing: The Power Of Personal Stories + Finish Your Novel In 8 Weeks! + Creating Three Dimensional Characters + Six Secrets To The Perfect Plot + Writing and Selling Tasty Restaurant Reviews + The BUZZ YOUR BOOK Online Class - with bestselling author M.J. ROSE + **NEW** How To Write A Cookbook And Sell It! Class descriptions and prices: http://www.writersweekly.com/wwu/courses/ ~Have A Need For Creative Freelancers?~ http://www.writersweekly.com/phpBB2/index.php?c=2 ~Are You Missing The Party?~ The Freelance Writing Forum is very active and we'd love to have you join us! http://www.writersweekly.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=15 ~Need Our Advertising Rates?~ See: http://www.writersweekly.com/misc/adrates.html ~New Writer's Guidelines Appearing to WritersWeekly.com~ Wavelength Magazine - Pays $50-$100; $50 for cartoons http://forums.writersweekly.com/viewtopic.php?t=6205 Coastal Elegance & Wealth - Pays $250-$350 http://forums.writersweekly.com/viewtopic.php?t=6202 Vintage Romance Publishing - Pays 6% royalties. http://forums.writersweekly.com/viewtopic.php?t=6201

The Latest From AngelaHoy.com For April 19th
Angela is under the weather this week (hack, sniff, cough). Her blog will return next week.

The Internet Changed My Writing Life! By Connie Werner Reichert
On New Year's Eve in 1994, I gave birth to a baby girl and a new business. Crazy, yes, but it was something I had to do. Determined to be a stay-at-home-mom, I began to make my living as a home-based publicist and freelance writer. This was especially challenging since I was an orphaned single mom with no one to help me. I had to figure out a way to raise my child and earn a living in an environment that catered to both. Thank God for the Internet!

Breaking New Media News - Today's Top News Stories
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SAME PRINTER and SAME DISTRIBUTION...yet DIFFERENT Setup Fees?

• Booklocker: $392 (deduct $175 if submitting your own cover)
  
• iUniverse $459.00 (includes 5 free copies)
  
• Xlibris $500
  
• AuthorHouse $898
  
• Trafford: $1399 (includes 40 free copies)
  
  

Prices based on least expensive package offered by each publisher on similar offers targeting U.S. authors. Fees include setup, original cover design, free print proof, ebook creation, a listing on the publisher's website and distribution by Ingram. NOTE: Many companies offer perks that others don't and some try to upsell authors on extraneous services. Study each publisher carefully before making your choice. To read more about what Booklocker can do for you: http://publishing.booklocker.com

Paying Markets And Freelance Jobs For April 19th
PAYING MARKETS These are NOT recycled guidelines. WritersWeekly.com only features original market listings, received from and approved by the editors at each publication. Home Educator's Family Times CURRENT NEEDS: "Family stories, humor, educational issues, homeschooling experiences, book excerpts." Pays $25 max for articles to 1200 words. Island Angler CURRENT NEEDS: "We are always looking for well written articles about Vancouver Island fisheries. We are also looking to acquire guidebook manuscripts that would fit with our existing line of books." ISLANDS CURRENT NEEDS: "We are actively searching for items for our front of the book, DISCOVER, season-specific ideas for the DISCOVER Opener, and departments: Island Life and Adventures. Minnesota Law & Politics, Washington Law & Politics, and Super Lawyer magazines CURRENT NEEDS: "We ALWAYS need original stories about the law or politics, and they ALWAYS have to be locally focused." Newsdesk Media Inc. CURRENT NEEDS: "We are currently looking for writers with experience in the fields of financial markets (NO personal finance, please), futures-options-derivatives, commodities, insurance, aerospace and aviation, defense, state economic development. Also looking for those with experience in writing about economic topics in Latin America or Asia. Journalism/magazine experience only; no PR/corporate writers, please." Nuestra Gente Utah CURRENT NEEDS: "Lifestyle features, personal stories, columns, travel, recipes, how-to's, etc. written in Spanish. Hispanic writers preferred."

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