A few months ago I made some changes to the website for my very first information product: Writing College Textbook Supplements: The Definitive Guide to Winning High-Paying Assignments in the College Textbook Publishing Market (WCTS for short). Go over and have a look at the page. I”ll wait… Writing supplements and ancillaries for college textbooks […]

Many freelance writers and entrepreneurs/business people are very interested in writing a book for a mainstream publisher that will appear in bookstores across the country and help build the author’s authority, reputation, and bank account. Today we focus on the bank account part, specifically determining a fair royalty rate on mainstream hardback and trade paperback […]

Demand Media (DMD) just did its initial public offering of stock on Wednesday, January 26, 2011. For those of you that don’t know the company, it owns a series of websites (such as ehow.com) that contain many  thousands of articles primarily written by low-paid freelance writers, articles designed to rank high in Google and other […]

Reading magazines stimulates our minds and helps us generate ideas for writing and business. Reading magazines also helps us understand the world better and thus navigate the many different facets of life: relationships, health, politics, the economy, and much more. We need to know what is going on so we can adapt ourselves to the […]