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    Marketing: Who Is Your Customer?

    This is the first in a series of marketing posts dealing with crafting your product for the marketplace. Subscribe to the blog feed to get the updates as they are posted. You are a writer. You’d like to get your work published. If you are a beginning writer, your best chance to get published quickly is to submit short pieces to magazines. You might produce articles, short stories, puzzles, and poems. I...
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    Marketing: Editing Your Work

    This is the second post in 3-part series on crafting your work for the marketplace. See the previous post here. What does editing have to do with marketing? Well, since the quality of your product will affect its "saleability," you need some quality control measures. Publishing houses just don't have the resources to do extensive edits on the mountain of submissions they receive. They routinely reject manuscripts...
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    Marketing: Selling and Re-Selling

    This is the last of three posts on crafting your product for the marketplace. Previous posts were “Editing Your Work” and “Who Is Your Customer?” Writing for peanuts---that's what you'll be doing if you sell each article, story, or poem only once. You may be tempted to skip this article if you’re still trying to get your first piece published. Resist the temptation, because, once you do sell something, you can sel...
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    Book Review: Teach Yourself Grammar and Style

    Full title: Macmillan Teach Yourself Grammar and Style in 24 Hours, by Pamela Rice Hahn and Dennis E. Hensley, Ph.D., published by Pearson Education Macmillan USA, 2000. Have you wanted to attend a writers’ conference but couldn’t afford it? Have you considered online courses but passed on them for the same reason? Consider getting a copy of this book, and give yourself a thorough workshop on the basics of wr...
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Writers, there’s a wealth of information for you on marketing and improving your work:

  • Start with the Writers Resources page.
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  • Check out my blog at this link or browse Categories feature in the sidebar.
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If you are an editor or a reader, I invite you to sample my work. Here’s how.

  • First, visit the About page, where you’ll find links to some of my published work on other sites.
  • Then, read my sample devotionals here.
  • Take a look at my devotional blog here.
  • Sample my humor pieces here.
  • Browse the Web site of Hometown Magazine to read more of my work.
  • Come back soon. I’ll be adding more content over the next couple of weeks.

Contact me by e-mail at akinemily[a]gmail.com.

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Workshop Categories


Writers can choose a fiction or nonfiction track or select workshops from a variety of cateories to meet their needs. Some workshops address more than one category.

Fiction


Ann Gabhart

Making Characters Come to Life

Revise, Revise, Revise

Carlton Hughes

Writing for Children’s Ministry

The Plot Thickens…with Your Thickening- with Virginia Smith

Kim Peterson

Writing for Children
Writing for Young Adults

David Pierce

And the Secret to Mystery Writing Is…

Virginia Smith

Diving Deep—Taking POV to a New Level


Nonfiction

Michael Brewer

Turning Facts into Truth: fiction techniques in nonfiction writing

Wendy Brown

The Writer’s Ministry: Employed by God
Oil Cans and Flashlights: Writing Techniques from Scripture


Lettie Burress

Writing for Beginners, Parts 1 and 2


Tracy Crump

Stirring the Pot: Writing for Chicken Soup and Other Inspirational Markets
Tackling Tough Topics


Carlton Hughes

Writing for Children’s Ministry


Kim Peterson

Writing for Children
Writing for Young Adults


David Pierce

Understanding How the “Me” in Memoir Works


Mary Lou Redding

Speaking to Millions: The Reach of Devotional Writing, Parts 1 and 2

Marketing and Organization

Emily Akin

Get Organized and Sell Your Work


Lettie Burress

Writing for Beginners, Parts 1 and 2
Selling What You Write Again and Again and Again


Dara Lehner

Making Sense of Market Guides


Mary Lou Redding

Speaking to Millions: The Reach of Devotional Writing, Parts 1 and 2