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The Quick and Dirty Guide to Freelance Writing
2014
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In an era of declining advertising revenue, thinner magazines and constantly shifting terrain of social media The Quick and Dirty Guide to Freelance Writing offers a fresh perspective on the old dream of what it means to write for a living. Author and journalist Scott Carney shows how writers don’t need to constantly teeter on the brink of bankruptcy if they want to pursue their art. The secret to success is deceptively simple: writers first need to value their own work instead of asking other people to value it for them. In a few short chapters Carney lays out his own unique method for grabbing the attention of editors, writing effective pitches, negotiating contracts and running a writing career as a business. It’s a must read for any person who wants make a living off of their words, or for any established writer who needs to sharpen their business sense.
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Author

Scott Carney
Scott Carney
Author · 10 books

Scott Carney is an investigative journalist and anthropologist whose stories blend narrative non-fiction with ethnography. He has been a contributing editor at Wired and his work also appears in Mother Jones, Foreign Policy, Playboy, Details, Discover, Outside, and Fast Company. He regularly appears on variety of radio and television stations from NPR to National Geographic TV. In 2010 he won the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for the story “Meet the Parents” which tracked an international kidnapping-to-adoption ring . His first book, “The Red Market: On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers and Child Traffickers” was published by William Morrow in 2011 and won the 2012 Clarion Award for best non-fiction book. He first traveled to India while he was a student at Kenyon College in 1998 and over the course of several years inside and outside the classroom he learned Hindi. In 2004 he received a MA in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. All told, he has spent more than half a decade in South Asia. He lives in Long Beach, CA. Source: http://www.scottcarney.com/

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