I use Duotropes Digest for market search. It is a free searchable database fro poetry and prose. You can sign up for a newsletter of poetry or prose - which sends you handy clickthrough links. While you are on the site donate to help them along. You can see by my CV I have done [...]

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As a freelance writer, coming up with new words and ideas can become tedious and difficult. Recently, I found a simple little software tool that has boosted my productivity enormously.
Article ideas is a tool which extracts snippets of articles on any topic you request. Enter a topic, and an optional subtopic, select how many results [...]

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Los Gatos, Calif., May 26, 2009 — Smashwords, an independent publisher, distributor and retailer of ebooks, today introduced the Smashwords Affiliate Marketing Program. The program allows bloggers, authors, readers, publishers, website operators, online specialty bookstores and professional affiliate marketers to receive commissions of 11 percent or more simply by linking to Smashwords ebooks.
“Our mission at [...]

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by David Goldsmith
There are many ways to earn a good living as a writer. In my book “25 Ways to Write for Money” I cover twenty five different ways that you can turn your words into cash. In this article I want to show you five ways that you can get started on right now.
1. [...]

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by Jill McDougall
If you want to write for children, this is the “must-have” book for your professional library.
Marg McAlister
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I started writing seriously in 2001. That’s not long ago for someone who’s on the grey side of 50.
As I write this six years later, I have just had my 100th children’s book accepted for [...]

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