Shorts: A Gateway into New Markets | 
 enlarge | Author: Colleen Foye Bollen
Publisher: Turtle Island Press (WA)
Category: Book
Buy New: $8.95
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 4005039
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 68
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 0965438406
EAN: 9780965438407
ASIN: 0965438406
Publication Date: December 1996
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Product Description
Stop accumulating rejection letters for feature-length article ideas. Magazines are moving toward shorter pieces and you can too. Shorts: A Gateway Into New Markets, the only book focusing on short articles, will teach you how to break into national and regional publications with short articles. This book outlines proven techniques on how to: condense volumes of material, cut unnecessary words, use strong verbs, limit adjectives, develop a solid focus, and stick to the assigned word count. Instead of fighting the trend toward short articles, use it to your advan tage. Shorts: A Gateway Into New Markets explains how writers and editors both benefit by starting their working relationship with short articles and offers strategies for targeting specific publications. With this book you can maximize your writing time and monetary rewards by learning to transform short articles into other money making ventures.
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A great "how-to" source for beginning writers November 7, 1996
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Shorts: A Gateway into New Markets" provides the beginning writer with an excellent how-to guide for determining what makes a article sell, how to reach a particular audience, and how to market your ideas to publications. The author provides samples of eye-catching paragraphs and describes her own writing successes in an easy-to-read style making it a must for anyone wanting to break into the competitive shorts market.
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