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Whether you've already registered for this year's ASJA Annual Conference (in New York City, held at New York Marriott Downtown, in Lower Manhattan's Financial District on April 19-20), or are still deciding, here are a few key updates.
Sign-ups for networking lunches on Sunday, April 19, are now open. Click here for more info, and to sign up. We are still looking for hosts so if you don't see a topic you like, email ASJA 2020 co-chair Kristine Hansen. Attendees pay for their own meal and we can even help you find a nearby place.
Speaking of sign-ups, editors and literary agents are registering daily to meet with attendee writers (via short speed-dating-like appointments created on a lottery system) on the afternoon of Monday, April 20. Don't see your favorite or dream editor or agent on the list? Client Connections co-chairs Jeanette Hurt and Erin O'Donnell have already created an invite...all you need to do is hit "send!" We've found that the best editors and agents to participate in this event are already familiar with our membership. Member sign-up begins March 31, with more info to come.
Sessions on the agenda are being finalized, with speakers' headshots and bios added on a rolling basis. Keep a close eye on this so you can better plan for how to spend your time at the conference.
Questions? Contact 2020 conference chairs Randy Dotinga or Kristine Hansen. How can we make this conference the best yet and better serve your needs? Don't hesitate to let us know!
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What free prize would you pick? Help your fellow writers — and score some major perks for yourself — by entering the Client Connections Recruitment Contest. The ASJA member who recruits the most Client Connections clients can pick one of these free prizes: attending a day of the 2020 NYC conference, a day at a regional conference, a set of conference recordings, or a spot at a Virtual Client Connections event The ASJA member who recruits the most Client Connections editors can pick one of the following prizes: a free day at the NYC or regional conference of your choice, a coveted slot at a Virtual Client Connections session or Virtual Pitch Slam in 2020, or a set of conference recordings. To enter, send an email to Cheryl Alkon and let her know which clients — think publications, hospitals, nonprofits, universities, literary agents and content marketing agencies located in the greater New York City area — you can invite to Client Connections, the afternoon of one-on-one, nine-minute meetings to be held Monday, April 20th, at the ASJA Annual Conference in New York City. She’ll send you an invite form to forward and track who signs up. The member with the most clients who register wins! Contact Cheryl with any questions.
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Want to get the inside scoop on ASJANY2020, our annual writer's conference, set for April 19-20 in NYC? Listen to the latest episode of ASJA Direct podcast, where hostess @estelleserasmus interviews conference co-chairs Randy Dotinga and Kristine Hansen. The conference preview is a free listen. Check it out here.
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Member name: Jamie Gold, San Diego
Success Story: Wellness by Design, upcoming book from Simon & Schuster
How I landed the gig: After writing two successful books for The Taunton Press, I thought pitching my third would be easy. Not so much! When fellow writers in a Facebook Binders women writers’ group suggested your annual conference as a great resource, I decided to check it out. I’m super-glad that I joined as a professional member and attended. I met my literary agent, Steve Harris of CSG Literary Partners, at your 2018 Client Connections and he helped me land a book deal with Simon & Schuster’s new wellness imprint, Tiller Press. The secret to succeeding, I believe, was being well-prepared for the turbo-paced literary speed-dating session. Have your “elevator pitch” prepared. Have an attractive leave-behind, get business cards from everyone you meet at Client Connections and follow up afterward. I had interest from most of the agents I met, but Steve was the most helpful and most interested. I have no regrets in signing with him. He’s the level of professional you want to connect with through a professional association like ASJA.
Net results: TBD – Book publishes May 26, 2020
Comments about ASJA: I find great info in your weekly newsletter and am proud of my ASJA membership. I’m also interested in what the group is doing for us California freelancers with our state’s restrictive AB5 “gig worker” law, and what it will do if the equivalent HR2474 makes it out of Congress in a future administration.
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Client Connections is gaining new editors, agents and content marketing managers every day! Two - two!!! - Editors from both Parents and Cosmopolitan are coming this year, and all four of them are hungry for quality freelancers.
The metropolitan editor of The New York Times is coming, and she's also eager to meet with our members, especially those of you who hail from the greater NYC area who have amazing story ideas to pitch her.
We also have the editor from Fatherly coming, as well as the editor for the Armenian General Benevolent Union coming — they are really hungry for freelancers, and they pay up to $1 per word!
The editors of Input, Business.com and several other business and technology publications are coming, as well as two editors from Forbes. Register for the Conference here.
ASJA
Writers, if you like being your own boss, take note. Legislation that threatens your career is steamrolling across the country and, now that the issue is before Congress, you’re in its path.
The US House passed HB2474, known as PRO, three weeks ago and the bill is in committee in the Senate now. It’s not likely to pass the Senate right away, which gives ASJA and individual member’s time to speak out about its devastating effects.
We need to let policymakers, elected representatives both state and federal, and presidential candidates know the unintended consequences of these bills.
As you know, ASJA took the fight to federal court (read Milt Toby’s articles in Confidential). Until the court rules, ASJA’s lawyers prefer to do the talking.
Nevertheless, there’s much the organization and you can do — at no or low cost and minimal time using email, Twitter and Facebook to reach elected representatives and policymakers.
The Atlanta chapter has offered to track the federal bills and alert you to action, post news, how to’s and who to’s, and tips so that what we do is more effective.
Stay tuned to Weekly. Join in the conversation on ASJA’s Facebook page. More to come
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Folio Magazine
California lawmakers are reconsidering a controversial aspect of a newly implemented state law which limits freelance journalists to 35 articles per-year in the same publication before they must be considered full- or part-time employees, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez announced earlier this month.
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Writer's Digest
At some point in school, I bet you were given a writing prompt. Maybe in 4th grade you were told to write a paragraph on your favorite animal. Or later in middle school, you were asked to write a haiku about a dream. Or perhaps your high school English teacher assigned a 500-word essay describing your worst vacation.
For me, writing prompts have always been useful. However, one writing prompt in particular had been tapping on my back for years, trying to get me to turn around and face it. In fact, this prompt had been pestering me for as long as I’d been writing: Share your shame.
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Forbes
Freelancers, we all know the importance of earning our client’s trust, the confidence that we freelancers are professionals who can be counted on to consistently deliver what we’ve promised. Harvard Business School professor David Maister, the grandfather of professional services studies, describes the trust challenge every freelancer faces as clients consider whether to hire a freelancer and, if so, whom to select:
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Thrive Global
When you are into the la-la land of freelancing, you dream of days when you need not work on more stuff, when you can chill out and have more calm and composed days. But it is not always like how you imagined it.
When you are a full-time employee, you have a huge team standing behind you to take care of your day-to-day chores like handling your reimbursement, taxation, snacks, food and much more. When you are a freelancer, you are literally a one-man army.
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