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 This book is for business people who want to write, part-time or full-time. It is not just another writer's manual. Covering the Business Beat is targeted specifically to the millions of Americans in business-from the entrepreneur who wants to be known as an expert in her field, to the guy in the mailroom who dreams of being a freelance writer.
We advise them to start in the industry they're working in now, using their knowledge, background and contacts as a solid base from which to launch a writing career. And we show them how to use sound business principles and practices, from networking to niche marketing to running it like a business, to make that writing career a hands-down success.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Network, Don’t Query
Use your networking skills to meet the editor before you pitch a story idea.
Chapter 2 What the Market Will Bear
Know which types of stories you can sell to editors, right now.
Chapter 3 Research and the Room to Write
Allow yourself the time and space to research and create.
Chapter 4 Turn Your Contacts into Great Interviews
You already know whom to interview; now find out how to.
Chapter 5 Building a Strong Structure
Hang your story on a structure that helps you tell the tale.
Chapter 6 Shrink Your Writing, Make More Money
Niche marketing works for writers, too.
Chapter 7 Working It
How an editor, a reporter and a freelance writer do their jobs.
Chapter 8 Taking Care of Business
Run your writing life like a business using these four tips.
Chapter 9 Journalistically Speaking
Speaking and teaching engagements will grow naturally out of your writing career.
Chapter 10 Writers Are People Who Write
Add these finishing touches to polish your professional writing image.
Appendix Suggested Reading
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