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Writing for
Publication Video
A Concise &
Proven Method to
Get Published Quickly!
Learn at Home,
Online at Your Own Pace!
Available
in and
PAPERBACK
at: Amazon.com,
Barnesandnoble.com,
Borders.com
or from our order
page.
Join
Erik Bean, host of an Ann Arbor Writing for Publication workshop.
Erik, ably assisted by Car and Driver Editor-in-Chief Csaba Csere,
Jim Detjen, a Michigan State University professor and award winning
environmental writer, and noted publisher Len Fulton, will help guide you
through the steps necessary to get your magazine articles
published. Features three segments and 22 sub-segments.
Each 115 minute video includes access to the
Participant Lounge at FreelanceWorkshop.com.
Inside,
writers will find up-close video samples: articles, query letters that
sell, manuscript cover letters, follow-up letters, and withdrawal
letters, for example. What's more, if you wish, portions of these
letters may be cut and pasted for inclusion in your submission
packages! You'll also find links to useful Internet writing
resources that correspond to those discussed in the video. There
are so many writing resources available in the "Lounge" why not
take a tour
and see for yourself?
Writing for Publication will help you
search for the writer within, recognize who will purchase your unique
brand of writing, help shape it toward its intended audience, and assist
in submitting it for publication, the most rewarding aspect of the entire
writing process.
Video Tape Features:
[ Download
Clip Via Home Page ]
[ Segments | Order Tape
]
[ Roll Credits ]
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Run Time:
1 hr., 55 minutes
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Interviewees:
Csaba Csere, Editor-in-Chief,
Car and Driver Magazine.
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Jim Detjen,
Award Winning Environmental Freelance
Writer and Michigan State University
Knight Chair Professor.
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Len Fulton, International Directory of Little Magazines and Small
Presses' Editor, Freelance Writer, Publisher, and Novelist.
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Filmed Segments: Portions recorded live on-location in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, through the cooperation of Ann Arbor Community Education and
Recreation Department.
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Production Company:
Innovative Video Productions
Farmington Hills, Michigan.
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Producer:
Deadline Communications
Walled Lake, MI.
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Price: $29.95 plus $3.00 shipping (U.S. dollars). Michigan residents must include
6 percent sales tax ($1.80).
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· Website Access: Each
tape sold will include a Website password that will lead writers to
the"Participant Lounge." There they
will find more useful writing samples, tools, and resources not
available to the public.
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VHS Contents © 1998-9 Deadline Communications. An
Innovative Video Production recording. All Rights Reserved.
NOTICE
OF COPYPRIGHT
No part
of the Writing for Publication video or book excerpts contained on the
FreelanceWorkshop.com Website may be used or reproduced in any form
(aside from Internet browser viewing) without written permission from the
publisher, Deadline
Communications, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in
critical reviews and articles.
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November
1, 1999
"...Major
points are graphically illustrated, and there is a helpful section on
writers' frequently asked questions. For libraries short on video
instruction material for would-be wordsmiths."
Jeff T. Dick
Library Journal
Cahners
Business Information
Copyright ©
1999
October 1999
"Erik Bean's
Writing for Publication will provide invaluable and practical guidance to
those seeking to have their articles and essays published in magazines,
journals, newspapers, periodicals, and online....
James A. Cox
Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
278 Orchard
Drive,
Oregon, WI
53575
608-835-7937
mbr@execpc.com
mwbookrevw@aol.com
Csaba Csere, Editor-in-Chief,
Car and Driver
Magazine
· Why Get Published?
· Freelance Market Advice
 Video Excerpt on Freelance
Markets: "Magazines that are written all by freelancers are certainly
more fertile ground and magazines like that also cover a wider spectrum
of stories. What a freelancer needs to do is come up with a story
that perhaps the magazine hasn't heard of. If you come up with
something original, most magazines will not just rob your idea and give
the story to someone else. We try not to do that because we don't think
that's fair. But you must come up with something original."
He's
poignant, candid, upbeat, and doesn't waste any time by saying his
magazine is NOT a good market for new freelance writers! He's
Csaba Csere, editor-in-chief of Car
and Driver Magazine, a household name. Csere explains which
magazines are better targets for freelanceers.
Jim Detjen, Michigan State University Knight Chair, Environmental
Journalism
· Query Letter Writing
· Interviewing
· Critiquing
 Video Excerpt on Interviewing:
"I think
it's important to realize that people want to be interviewed for a lot of
reasons, and you shouldn't assume they're necessarily doing you a
favor. In fact, you are often doing them a favor. Politicians
want to get their names quoted in publications because they're running
for election; people are selling books and videotapes and records and
other things. People are trying to enhance their own reputation by
getting their names known in various publications. And some people
just enjoy, for ego purposes, to be recognized."
Jim
Detjen, noted award winning 21 year veteran freelance environmental
writer, holds the Knight Chair in Environmental Journalism at Michigan
State University
In
1990 Detjen co-founded and served for four years as the first president
of the U.S. Society of Environmental
Journalists. In 1993 he helped to found the International Federation
of Environmental Journalists and was elected its president in 1994.
Len Fulton, Freelancer, Novelist, and Publisher
· Freelance Market Advice
· Submissions
 Video Excerpt, Submissions: "In the editing business
we say, 'we don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's bad.' Most
editors can tell in three pages whether you can write or not. Put
yourself in the chair of a busy, overworked, underpaid and probably
grumpy editor whose got to deal with your work. This is a great
time for writers, but there's still no substitute for hard work and no
real shortcuts."
Len
Fulton has been an independent freelance writer and publisher for more
than three decades. He is most noted for his annually updated
International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses
encyclopedia that features both non-fiction and fiction writing market
sources. Published through Dustbooks,
Inc., Paradise, California, the approximately 1,000 page directory is so
comprehensive it even lists, for example, the University of Michigan's
student yearbook as a possible freelance submission market! Fulton
has spent more than 30 years interviewing editors, studying and
researching their freelance writing requirements. He is more versed
on the topic than anyone involved in the industry today.
The
Wall Street Journal calls Fulton's Directory, "The Bible of the
Business!"
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