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Final reminder: Sign up NOW for the Client Connections lottery for Chicago! Registration closes at 9 pm Eastern, FRIDAY, Nov. 3. Don’t miss out on the chance to meet with editors from Discover Magazine, Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Media, StayWell, HOTELS Magazine and a great line-up of book agents and editors (including some seeking ghostwriters). Sign up for the lottery here.
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Looking to connect with another peer within ASJA? Need a mentor to offer you some tips or perhaps you want to mentor others? Maybe you want a buddy to help you stay accountable for your goals?
Check out the ASJA Peer-to-Peer program! In this informal program, you’ll be matched with another ASJA member based on common writing interests. For more information or to sign up, please contact Pamela DeLoatch at pamela@b2bstorytelling.com, using subject line: ASJA Peer to Peer.
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ASJA is currently holding its Fall Membership Drive during the months of October and November. We are waiving the $50 initiation fee for writers who apply for either Professional or Associate membership before Nov. 30 and join by Dec. 31, 2017. After you apply and are accepted, use the code MI-JGG to waive the initiation fee. Note that the code is for the initiation fee due after you are accepted not the $25 application fee due when you apply.
ASJA now offers two levels of membership:
- Associate – Provides mid-level freelance writers with the resources, mentoring and support to become national level writers. Writers working on staff at a media company can join ASJA at this membership level.
- Professional – Provides national level writers with education, networking opportunities with other top freelancers and advocacy for independent writers. Professional members can participate in programs to meet with potential clients either in-person, telephone or Skype.
To grow your career through ASJA resources and benefits, determine which level of membership you qualify for and then start your application today. We look forward to getting to know you and help you increase your income and client base.
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Don't you find fall a great time for digging back into your writing and professional goals? If you haven't already renewed your membership, our annual renewal drive is underway. Pay your 2018 ASJA dues between now and Nov. 30 to be entered into a drawing for great prizes, including:
- a two-night resort stay at Kalahari Resorts & Conventions in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains
- a free registration for Members Day at ASJA's New York conference, May 18, 2018
- the 2018 New York conference recordings
- free registration to the regional conference of your choice over the next two years
- a guaranteed Virtual Client Connections meeting with the offered editor of your choice in 2018
Click here to renew your membership for 2018*
We are also holding our Fall Membership Drive between now and Nov. 30. For each new member that you refer during the drive (either Associate or Professional), you get one entry into the raffle and also receive a 25% discount on your ASJA dues. We are waiving the $50 initiation fee during the Fall Membership Drive — pass on the code MI-JGG to fellow writers.
Our new Associate Member category has been launched, with goals of building membership, widening our base and ensuring ASJA's future. That's where you come in. We're looking for professional members like you to serve as mentors. You'll be paired in a mentorship "pod" with up to four mentees, committing to communicating at least once per month. As thanks for sharing your expertise and time, you’ll receive a discount of 25% off your annual membership dues for each mentee who successfully joins ASJA as a professional member. Any questions regarding mentoring should be directed to Lori Ferguson at lori@writerloriferguson.com.
Thanks for sustaining your commitment to the American Society of Journalists and Writers — both for your own career and for the careers of your fellow writers! Together we're strong.
*Please remember that you have to be logged into the ASJA Store in order to see the correct product. If you have any issues, click here first.
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Many writers have heard about how lucrative ghostwriting can be. The opportunity to earn tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars from a single book project is quite appealing. And demand for ghostwriting skills is on the rise, as experts, executives, consultants, professional speakers, and others realize that partnering with a professional writer is an effective and efficient way to produce content. In addition to books, there are ghostwriting opportunities for bylined articles, blog posts, whitepapers, and columns, too. But how do you break into this potentially lucrative field? How do you get that first assignment? ASJA member Marcia Layton Turner, founder of the Association of Ghostwriters, will explain how.
That’s what we’ll talk about in this month’s “Shop Talk” event.
Join us:
Wednesday, Nov. 15
1 p.m. Eastern (calculate for your time zone)
Register here.
About our guest expert:
Marcia Layton Turner earns close to 80 percent of her six-figure income from ghostwriting. While business books are her specialty, she also writes articles, blog posts, and white papers on behalf of corporate clients. She is the founder and executive director of the Association of Ghostwriters, which is seeing double-digit membership growth this year thanks to increasing interest in the specialty.
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Your chance to pitch Boston Globe Magazine’s Michael Fitzgerald
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 Tuesday, Nov. 28 at noon Eastern to get one of the pitching slots. We will provide instructions on how to sign up soon. 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.
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Member name: Milly Dawson, Maitland, FL
Success stories: Broke into PBS’ NextAvenue
How I landed the gig: I participated in the ASJA Virtual Pitch Slam with NextAvenue editor Richard Eisenberg. I pitched an essay I had already written and really wanted to place. It concerns mental health issues I've faced in my family. He liked the idea and told me to send it to health editor Emily Gurnon.
Net result (money earned; placement, etc): Enormous satisfaction. The topic is very important to me. The fee is low ($200), but I had worked on this essay for months and circulated it to four or five other markets before succeeding with NextAvenue.
Comments about ASJA: This essay would not have happened without ASJA. A friend I met through ASJA's formal find-a-buddy program, Agata Blaszczak-Boxe, told me to write the essay. Another member, Beth Levine, did a serious revision of the essay after my initial efforts to place it garnered only polite rejections. She made it so much stronger and better. Then there was the help of the VCC organizers, of course.
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Entrepreneur
Nearly 36 percent of the U.S. workforce is freelancing — that's a whopping 57.3 million Americans. As a result, these freelancers have contributed nearly $1.4 trillion annually to the economy. And these numbers are only growing. In fact, by 2027 — if not sooner — it's predicted that the majority of Americans will be freelancers.
More and more people are freelancing full time, according to the Freelancers Union and freelancing platform Upwork's new Freelancing in America: 2017 report. That's because there are more jobs available and the idea of freelancing as a career is becoming widely accepted.
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Columbia Journalism Review
How do ordinary people define fake news? Isabella, a woman we spoke to as part of a research project, explained that, for her, “fake news” is simply “news that you don’t believe is real.” She continued, “this guy has got one story, [that one] has got the other story, you decide which one is fake and you decide which one is real.”
We spoke to Isabella (not her real name) as part of a series of focus group discussions with news users in the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Finland — organized by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford — to find out how members of the public think about fake news.
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Forbes
With the exception of accountants, bookkeeping isn’t often a priority for freelancers.
It’s one of those tasks that are often considered a nuisance and distraction. As such, many freelancers spend as little time as possible on keeping those ends in order. The result is often that bookkeeping and record keeping tasks are often done at the last minute and haphazardly. The image of the busy entrepreneur at tax time holding a shoebox full of crumpled receipts may be stereotypical, but there is some truth to it. That’s a shame, because every freelancer should prioritize bookkeeping.
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The Content Standard by Skyword
The first time I was invited to write for a financial services client, I turned down the opportunity. I didn’t have the chops. I’d never written much about personal finance before. It was a shame, because I knew I had the potential to get up to speed, but I didn’t want to lie and say I was an expert just to get the gig.
Turns out the client appreciated my honesty, knew my ability to research, loved my unique voice and asked me to contribute in spite of my limited prior knowledge in the sphere.
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