Making Money in Technical Writing: Turn Your Writing Skills Into $100,000 a Year

by Peter Kent and Peter Kent

Believe it or not, there are technical writers who make $100,000 a year--and you can be one of them with the help of this invaluable little book. Author Peter Kent, himself a profile freelance technical writer, shows you how to get started in this fast-growing field.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0028618831
• ISBN13: 9780028618838
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Answers Questions Writers Face Today!

With the popularity of the Internet as a serious publishing medium, many opportunities now exist for writers from a variety of backgrounds and experiences to make a decent living. This is particularly true in the area of technical writing. Peter Kent has written Making Money in Technical Writing to provide writers with insight into how they can turn their writing experience into real income producing opportunities! This book will help answer some of the more pressing questions writers face today such as how to look for work, finding the right agency, which assignments to accept and which ones to reject, how to price work, how to copyright protect work, how to conduct contract negotiations, and what the pros and cons of freelancing are. Helpful advice on working more efficiently, selling work, building a good reputation, and tax preparation is also provided. The author thoughtfully includes a number of good resources for writers that will get them started in the right direction. Information about Websites, writer's associations, technical service firms, correspondence courses, training courses, seminars, and writing and consulting books for further reading are provided. All of these resources will contribute to a successful writing career. Subtitled Turn Your Writing Skills Into $100,000 A Year, this book will convince readers that this goal is possible. Make no mistake though. Serious effort is required to become a successful writer. Fortunes in the writing business are not typically made overnight but with the right advice, encouragement, and inner drive, the readers of this book have a fighting chance at becoming successful. Must reading!

Full of Resources.. A MUST Read!!

If you have ever wanted to know the facts about technical writing and how to get into this field then this book is a gem!! Once again Peter Kent gets down to the nitty gritty and gives you everything you need to know to succeed as a technical writer. Not only is it easy reading it is full of fantastic resources to get you started. Well worth the time it takes to read and the small amount of money it costs to purchase!!

Great book by a reliable author

Peter Kent does it again. If you can't learn it from Peter, you probably shouldn't be in the business anyway. Great book!

Turn the pitfalls of freelancing into a money-making bonanza

"Making Money in Technical Writing--Turn Your WritingSkills Into $100,00 A Year" is an unabashedly optimisticlook at turning the pitfalls of freelancing into a money-making bonanza. Author, Peter Kent, a prolific technical writer and author of numerous computer books, speaksfrom experience. He advocates capitalizing on his three-step system of marketing techniques to hit the cash jackpot. Fresh approaches to the staples of freelancing are covered with detailed coaching: networking, negotiating with agencies, sales techniques, contracts, the IRS and taxes, shopping for medical, life insurance and pension plans, incorporating. This is a prodigious collection of tips--tried and true tools of success used by the author. Beginners or seasoned pros can mine just the right nuggets of advice from this excellent reference. You will find a wealth of on-line resources featured in useful web sites, mailing lists and newsgroups. Appendixes offer technical service agencies, professional associations, training courses and seminars. Working the three-step system is not just about increasing your income, but about spreading your wings as a consultant, author of computer books or entrepreneur.