| On August 21st, 2008, Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman spoke with Yvonne Perry of Writers In The Sky about the subject of freelance writing and how to get started in this rewarding field. She and her team provide ghostwriting and editing companies and individuals. With her wide variety of writing experience that includes résumé writing, personal and professional bios, high-quality press releases and articles, as well as business documents such as case studies. Yvonne shared with us many insights as an entrepreneur and owner of a small business that does a variety of freelance writing assignments. Specifically, how to get started as a freelancer, the most common challenges you will face, typical misconceptions about the process, writing successful query letters, and how to be a ghost writer. |
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| Yvonne is also the author of eleven children’s eBooks, a humorous book titled Email Episodes, which is about mid-life crisis, a paperback book titled More Than Meets the Eye: True Stories about Death, Dying and Afterlife, which provides comfort to those who are grieving the loss of a loved one; and Right to Recover Winning the Political and Religious Wars over Stem Cell Research in America.She is the host of the Writers in the Sky Podcast a weekly show about the craft and business of writing in which she interviews guest authors, publishers, and book marketing experts about writing, book publishing, marketing, and a variety of topics to assist freelance writers. |  |
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Yvonne Perry – How to Become A Freelance Writer
Posted by Victor Volkman
on August 31, 2008
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Robert D. Reed – Writing and Publishing Nonfiction
Posted by Victor Volkman
on December 14, 2007
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| On Thursday, December 13th, 2007 Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman spoke with author and publishing veteran Robert D. Reed about how to be successful in writing and publishing non-fiction works. Bob is the publisher of nearly 1,800 books and co-author of more than 50 books and resource guides on a wide range of subjects, including: environmental issues, current affairs, health, business excellence, responsible leadership, education, effective parenting, psychology, ending domestic violence and child abuse, homelessness, and much more. He spoke with us about key issues of the nonfiction market including pre-publication publicity, sizing of print runs, finding distributors and wholesalers, and what an author has to do to be successful — where self-published or not. |  |
| Profits from one of his cookbooks fed millions of children worldwide through the C.A.R.E. Organization in New York City. Many of his authors have been featured on television and radio programs, and in newspaper and magazine articles throughout the world. The founder of Robert D. Reed Publishers, Bob has produced and distributed over 165 titles, including House Calls: How we can all save the world one visit at a time by Patch Adams, M.D. – the compassionate and humorous doctor portrayed by Robin Williams in Universal Picture’s hit film, “Patch Adams.” |
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Liz Carmack – Tips for Planning and Organizing Research for Your Nonfiction book
Posted by Victor Volkman
on October 26, 2007
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| On Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Tyler Tichelaar and Victor Volkman spoke with writer, journalist, and researcher Liz Carmack. Her love for heritage travel and her desire to provide travelers with a practical reference to Texas’ historic hotels inspired her to write Historic Hotels of Texas: A Traveler’s Guide. Liz shared her hard-won experience and real-life stories of how to define your topic and its scope, identifying and exploiting research and information sources, how to work with an archival library, planning your time to be most effective, developing a useful information filing system, and how to maintain a sense of fun and curiousity about it all. |  |
| During her research, Liz traveled more than 20,000 miles across Texas to visit the 64 hotels featured in her book. Liz interviewed local historians, innkeepers and hotel guests, and uncovered historic hotel details in archives, libraries and museums.Liz is a freelance technical and business writer for the public and private sectors in Austin, Texas, and is principal of Liz Carmack Communications. Her travel articles have appeared in Texas Highways, Austin Woman, A, and Heritage magazines. A former newspaper journalist, she is the Austin City Expert for homeandabroad.com. |  |
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