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By Sandra Gurvis
Given the proliferation of digital, visual and spoken media, awareness of rights is more important than ever. A prime example is past ASJA president Jack El-Hai. A few months ago, El-Hai walked away from an assignment with The Atlantic over a rights dispute. Current ASJA President and attorney Milt Toby feels that contracts are trickier than ever, especially in content writing. “With contracts for magazines and books, you know where the troublesome clauses are. With content writing, the language tends to be personal service and generic and may have nothing to do with writers at all.”
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If you’re a book author (or have a book inside that’s ready to come out), don’t miss the annual ASJA Conference in New York City May 5-6. In addition to meeting agents and book publishers at Client Connections, professional members can sign up for a brand-new add-on, “Get the Attention of the Big Five: A Book Proposal Mastermind Class,” taught by Porscha Burke of Random House. Plus, you can sit in on one of many book-centric panels, like “First Pages Critiques,” “Pitch Slam: Nonfiction Agents and Editors” and “Writing a Killer Book Proposal.” Register now to get the early bird discount.
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Clients have to register by April 16 to participate in Client Connections, the afternoon of one-on-one, nine-minute meetings to be held Monday, May 6, at the ASJA Conference. If you want to invite them and earn a FREE day of ASJA when they register, you may want to do so today.
Here’s how the Client Connections Recruitment Contest works: Take a look at your client contacts. Are there any at publications, hospitals, nonprofits, universities,or content marketing agencies located in the greater New York City area? If so, please ask them to attend.
Email Cindy Kuzma with the names and titles of these clients. She’ll send you an invitation to forward to them and she’ll enter your name and theirs on the contest spreadsheet to track who signs up. The member with the most clients who register wins! Contact Cindy with any questions.
ASJA
In the latest ASJA Direct podcast, Estelle Erasmus interviews longtime ASJA members Damon Brown and Jeanette Hurt about their new book on creating passive income, The Passive Writer: 5 Steps to Earning Money in Your Sleep. And don't miss the 2019 ASJA Conference preview up on the site at https://asja.org/ASJAdirect
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If you've got energy and experience to share and you're looking for an opportunity to pay it forward, consider serving as a mentor to an associate member.
Each month, ASJA welcomes new associates who want to fine tune their skills, learn from more experienced writers and prepare to apply to become a professional member of ASJA. You can help them.
We've created two, 8-week guidebooks — one tailored to mentors and one to associates — to help you organize your discussions and keep your time commitment to a reasonable level. Interested? Intrigued? Ready to dive in? Contact Lori Ferguson, committee chair, at lori@writerloriferguson.com or (603) 566-6368.
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Don’t miss out on big discussions at ASJA’s members-only forums. Check out these topics:
VCC SNAFU?
Generally Speaking: If you can write about anything, can you talk about it?
Over-sharing? SlideShare.net shares books, not bucks
Creative comeback?
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 Shop on Amazon? ASJA members, family and friends now have an easy way to donate to ASJA Charitable Trust! Next time you’re ready to shop on Amazon, start your shopping session at the URL http://smile.amazon.com. Select American Society of Journalists and Authors Charitable Trust as your charity, and Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases! Ready to start shopping? Click here to default ASJACT as your charity of choice!
GardenComm
The 2019 GardenComm Media Awards is the only national online media awards program for the gardening communications industry. Held annually for more than 20 years, the GardenComm Media Awards have recognized the top professional horticultural communicators in the areas of writing, photography, speaking, digital media, broadcast media, publishing and trade.
This year’s program features more than 50 categories across seven disciplines (View here). All works primarily focused on horticulture and gardening topics are eligible. All individuals, companies and publishers may enter. GardenComm membership is not required, but does qualify entrants for discounted entry fees.
Forbes
Freelancers often find themselves under a lot of pressure. Every bit of your income is based on your ability to market your skills, to satisfy clients and to grow that client base. At first, it’s a matter of paying the bills. Then, it’s a matter of having extra revenue to enjoy life and have a few luxuries along the way. And then there is the savings for those lean periods and for retirement someday.
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Writer's Digest
Do I love my characters? Do I love my book? More importantly, do I love creating? The creative process is the path from essential elements of story craft to finished piece of art. And passion for that work is the fuel that propels you there.
After three decades of writing and being a writing instructor, I believe that craft can be taught. You can pack every bookshelf in your home with guides on understanding plot structure, take courses on forming complex characters, attend seminars on effectively wielding poetic devices — and with each morsel of advice, your skill set will grow.
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Entrepreneur
Gone are the days when the first choice of preference was to acquire a "decent" job, in today's world aspiration is to work for oneself. A quick search on Wikipedia will tell us that if a person who is self-employed and is not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term is called a freelancer. But if a person is independent isn't he/she also an entrepreneur?
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The Motley Fool
As a self-employed freelance writer, I don't get paid a salary. I'm paid for the work I do, and I don't get paid if I don't work, which creates an enormous pressure to always be working.
Even when I have achieved my financial goals for the day, the week, or even the month, the looming unknown makes me want to push ahead and do more. That's partly because more money is almost always better, but also because you never know when the flu, a family emergency, or another surprise event might mean missing precious working hours (and earnings).
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