Online Markets for Writers: How to Make Money by Selling Your Writing on the Internet

by Anthony Tedesco and Paul Tedesco

Book Overview

The first-ever resource guide showing all writers- traditional and online-how to sell their work to and get top prices from online markets. Online Markets for Writers is an all-encompassing database of submission guidelines and pay-rate and policy information for over 200 paying online magazines, electronic newsletters, and custom corporate online publications, plus advice from confidential writer surveys about specific markets. Designed for everyone,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805062262
• ISBN13: 9780805062267
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Owl Books (NY)
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 2.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Information with Laughs

This is the best book about online writing that I've come across, and a stand out among the crowded field of books on writing in general. Anthony Tedesco and Paul Tedesco are clearly excellent writers, and it shows. They are also pretty funny. It's not often that humor finds its way into a "how to" book, but I found myself laughing time and again while reading *Online Markets for Writers*. Along with nuts and bolts market information, the authors provide many author "spotlights," where writers who have experience with online publishing share their views. This is invaluable to freelancers, who much prefer practice to theory. The bulk of the book is a list of over 200 profiles of online markets, which provide all the information anyone will need and then some.*Online Markets for Writers* is a superior book.

An Essential Source for the Online Writer

If only I had purchased this book before I sent out my first query letter! I managed to stumble through the negotiations of my very first contract/assignment, but it would have been much less nerve-wracking if I had read ONLINE MARKETS FOR WRITERS first. The format is excellent: informative and easy to use. It includes a brief history of the Internet with a crash course in "the only HTML you actually need to know", interviews with online editors and writers, how-to tips (electronic queries, net style, contract negotiation, etc) and an online market database packed with essential information. The writing styles of both the Tedesco brothers, while distinct, are conversational, easy-going and not without humor. It's like getting advice from more experienced friends who are trying to save you some trouble.

Buy it!

Online Markets For Writers is just about the best book on getting online writing assignments I've come across. Listings of hundreds of markets, sites, resources, advice and examples on how to query, contracts, negotiating payments - the works. Maybe the best thing about it is the interviews. The Tedesco brothers decided to go right to the source, online editors and successful working writers, and ask, `How do you do it? How did you break in? What's hot? What are editors looking for?' The result is not just a book listing places to send your submission but a collection of sound solid advice from dozens of people directly involved and making it in the new media.If there's one thing to fault about the book - apart from the fact that I wish there were more of it! - it's that the writers do so much listening they don't do more writing of their own. Paul and Anthony Tedesco's writing is a perfect example of `wired style': hip, clean, fast, funny, to the point - exactly what most editors seem to be buying. I wouldn't have minded a more expanded edition, just to hearing more from them about their own experiences.But this is nit-picking. The bottom line is, this book should be on the shelf of every writer who writes or wants to write for an online publication. It gives you hundreds of places to go, tells you what the editors are looking for, and shows you what to do and what not to do in clear quick easy-to-understand language. It's the book to get, period: I did, and believe me, it's worth every cent. Stop reading this review, and go buy it. David Pascal

Buy This Book!

This book is a must for anyone who wants to be an online writer. Without a doubt, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative source for online market info. Best of all, it's fun to read--and if you can make HTML coding instructions funny, man you have some career ahead of you. Can't wait for more material from the Tedesco brothers.

Every writer needs to own this book!

"Online Markets for Writers" is an essential tool for an experienced or new writer to own. Like it or not the internet is a strong force changing the writing market as we know it today. If you don't become net - savy you will be left behind. Take that all important first step and get this book! The chapters covering electronic rights will be an essential resource for years to come. Anthony and Paul also dispell the myths about web sites being unable to pay writers. Stop giving away your work for "exposure" and start making money. My copy will be dog - eared from over use in short order!