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July 13 is your chance to pitch PBS NextAvenue.org's Richard Eisenberg
Virtual Pitch Slams (VPS) are one-hour interactive phone conference calls during which a moderator hosts a client, who outlines what his/her outlet is looking for from freelance writers. Then, ASJA members give live pitches by telephone, followed by constructive feedback on each story idea.
ASJA members can sign up on a first-come, first-served basis beginning tomorrow, Thursday, June 29th at 9:00 AM EST to get one of the pitching slots. The sign up link will be here. Members may also register just to listen in on the event, as they would for a Shop Talk. VPS will also be recorded and accessible via ASJA’s website shortly after the event.
Be sure to read the FAQs here for more information.
Following on the wonderful success of the 2014 Content Connection in Chicago, ASJA is organizing another Chicago event. The event will take place on the campus of Columbia College, and include presentations on creating corporate content and custom publishing for both novices and veterans.
The two-day event includes AuthorCon, November 17, a whole-day workshop designed to help experts, executives and others who ‘have a book inside’ develop a plan for hiring the ghostwriter to help that book come out. The workshop will help aspiring authors shape their topics, understand today’s publishing spectrum and how to navigate it, and meet ghostwriters and services who can help turn their ideas to reality.
The November 18 event will include a pitch slam competition, which provides writers the opportunity for one-on-one meetings with companies and agencies who need professional writers and freelancers to tell their stories, whether online or elsewhere.
A return engagement in Chicago! Rev up your referrals; sharpen your pitching and proposals; cross-sell on your content strengths; and meet a new crop of content marketing clients.
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The newest, busiest topics in our members-only online forums
Compiled by Mark Obbie, Forum Chair
DON’T TURN OVER YOUR NOTES
A nightmare-client editor kills an article, improvises a paltry kill fee, and then demands the writer’s notes so that others can complete the story. This and other negotiating issues get a group review from other members. (Join the conversation)
ONCE BITTEN, BUT NOT TWICE SHY
You bid on a client’s project and never got a reply. Now the same client solicits another bid from you. How do you ask politely if this “tire kicker” is serious this time? (Join the conversation)
SOCIAL MEDIA TWO-STEP
A member having trouble getting technical support from LinkedIn gets advice on using Twitter to draw more attention to her problem.(Join the conversation)
JOBS, JOBS, JOBS
This is the place to go for links to new freelance gigs. When you see work opportunities, please share them in this forum — it’s a group effort.
Log in daily to see the latest discussions and check out tips on making the most of the forums. Remember, you must log in to the forums in addition to logging in to the members-only side of the ASJA website.
By Sandra Gurvis
The author of Un/Masked, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl on Tour, ASJA member Donna Kaz uses her alter egos — Guerrilla Girl and Aphra Behn, Guerrilla Girl on Tour — to create humorous pro-feminist/anti-sexist performance and visual art. The New York City denizen also has the distinction of being the recipient of seven — count ‘em, seven — different writer’s residencies, including two at the extremely hard-to-get-into Yaddo. The Sarasota Springs, NY colony has hosted 74 Pulitzer Prize and 68 National Book Award winners, 29 MacArthur Fellowship recipients and Saul Bellow, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976.
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Member name: Tish Davidson, Fremont, CA
Success Story: Book deal from ABC-CLIO
How I landed the gig: I am primarily a health and medical writer with an educational background in physiology. In 2016, I responded to a job posting on the ASJA website looking for health and psychology writers. I sent my CV, and after a telephone discussion with the assigning editor, I was offered a contract to write a 100,000-word reference book for adults on vaccines. Vaccines: History, Science, and Issues was published in June 2017. On its completion, I was contracted to write a second book for the same publisher.
Net Result: $1,500 advance with laddered royalties for both eBook and print book and a contract to write a second book.
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Columbia Journalism Review
All new technologies have their champions and their naysayers, luddite matching tit for tat with techno-utopian. The arrival of artificial intelligence in newsrooms is no different. Some see its various iterations as tools for reducing grunt work; others see a field full of ethical land mines. Most see a little bit of both.
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Forbes
Making your freelance business profitable can take ages if you only offer one simple service. A graphic designer can only earn as much as someone’s willing to pay for a logo. But if you turn your business into a one-stop-shop for a variety of website needs, people will pay a lot more for the convenience. One research found that bundled services are 36 percent more likely to be approved by clients than traditional estimates.
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Poynter
Headlines are lifelines to our readers. They grab attention, build trust and help time-pressed consumers focus on the stories they care most about. How do you ensure that they are engaging as well as accurate? Here are 10 questions to ask when you are writing (or editing) headlines.
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CNBC
When John Kapetaneas graduated with $111,354 worth of student loans and credit card debt, he remembers thinking, "I'm never going to pay this freaking thing off."
"I couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel," he tells Farnoosh Torabi on her podcast "So Money." Yet the New York City-based journalist managed to pay it all off in just two years.
Kapetaneas' journey out of the red started with a mindset shift: He told himself that, if other people were able to pull themselves out of debt, he could, too.
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Entrepreneur
My freelance writing journey started about six years ago in my penultimate year as a law student — and after failing at so many other business attempts. I always said I would start a business before graduating. I just believed it would be the perfect time for that type of venture. Throughout my college years, I had written for public consumption, so freelance writing made sense.
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