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ASJA2016 Change | Challenge | Opportunity gives freelance writers at ALL stages of their careers the info they need to succeed. Check out the schedule on Saturday, May 21 and don't miss this chance to give YOUR career the boost it needs! Learn how to go solo younger, use social media effectively, get your book proposal sold, and so much more! (Online registration is now closed but you can come to the Roosevelt Hotel on Saturday May 21 for walk-in registration.)
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Lynya Floyd
It's not easy trying to focus on a conference before you actually set foot on the registration line. Chances are you’re scrambling to tie up loose ends at work and home — all while trying not to forget some crucial item for the event like your cell phone charger. But with just the tiniest bit of pre-conference planning (which I’ve broken down into 5-minute tasks), you can make sure that every dollar, hour and bit of energy you spend at your next conference reaps you a phenomenal return on your investment. Before you walk into your first session, review these six questions to ask yourself. The answers will be the key to your success.
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The Content Standard
In many ways, freelance means freedom. Freedom from an office. Freedom from coworkers. Freedom from a daily schedule. Not everyone can handle it, but for those who can, the opportunity to freelance is a gift that allows you to build your client base and portfolio, expand your audience, and enhance your knowledge. Sometimes, though, it can feel like a gift you don’t want to open — one that perhaps you’ll just leave on the shelf a while longer. Why? Because there’s a lot more that goes into freelance writing than typing up a few words and hitting submit.
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Writer's Digest
Anyone who’s ever written an historical novel will acknowledge that it involves vast amounts of research: books you use, books you don’t use, hours on the internet, reams of notes. In many ways, though, doing the research is the easy part. What really makes an historical novel stand out is drawing on the knowledge you’ve gathered to create a world that is both vivid and believable. Here are seven tips for doing just that.
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Publishers Weekly
Although Michael Phillip Cash always knew he wanted to publish his work, he "didn't have the faintest idea how [he] was actually going to accomplish that goal." One day on Amazon, he stumbled upon CreateSpace: "I’ve been with CreateSpace now for over five years and it really is a soup-to-nuts website. They’ve thought of everything." Perhaps due to the way Cash discovered self-publishing, he never had the fear many authors describe feeling before embarking on a self-publishing project.
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Vogue
A chartered plane is traversing the placid skies somewhere between St. Louis and Cleveland, carrying a woman bound for a rally, a five-state primary victory, and, as some would see it, her destiny. She is trailed by another plane packed with twelve women. The first woman is running for president. The other twelve are her press corps, here to record, question, and explain her every move. Their relationship is complicated, to say the least. It's a Saturday in mid-March, a few days before the Florida–Illinois–Missouri–Ohio–North Carolina primary, and Hillary Clinton has just finished addressing voters at a carpenters’ union in St. Louis. It was a standard stump speech, except that the former Secretary of State had emerged among crates and forklifts wearing leather — or what looked from afar like a white leather skirt paired with a structured black leather top.
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GalleyCat
Earlier this year, Scholastic named Dav Pilkey the Scholastic Summer Reading Global Ambassador. He and 18 fellow authors wrote their own "How I Became a Reading Superhero" stories to encourage kids to read consistently during their summer vacation. Here’s more from the Scholastic blog: "This year’s theme is ‘Be A Reading Superhero,’ and it’s all about believing in kids and encouraging them to be the best independent readers they can be…Each week, from now until September 9, kids can log the time they spend reading, unlock a fill-in-the-blank story, and earn digital rewards like chapter excerpts and character badges! unlock a new one on the website!"
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