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| Literary legends. African lions. Pop culture. Fear. Dictators. Graphic design. Mary Tyler Moore. Book covers. Psychics.
Last Friday, the great Jennifer Keishin Armstrong (former Entertainment Weekly staffer and author of the forthcoming Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything) and I spent an evening geeking out about all of the above—all things that we have previously geeked out about in the pages of magazines, websites, books and other media.
That’s the thing about being a freelancer writer: You get to delve deep into your passions. You get to explore the brilliant and amazing world around you. And (best part?) you get paid to do it all.
Now, I’m no snake-oil salesman when I say that anyone really can do it—because anyone really can do it. You just need to know the right way in. And often, that means knowing what the bespectacled, bespoke-vested, probably hilariously particular person guarding the door is thinking.
Well, having been those bespectacled (though admittedly not bespoke-vested) magazine editors in addition to freelance writers, Jennifer and I are here to spill the beans on the Secrets to Getting Published That Magazine Editors Won’t Tell You (But We Will). Think query letter tricks. The inside scoop on how stories are assigned, edited and published. What you should ask your editor about in your contract. What you can do, what you shouldn’t do, what you must do. Think everything that will allow you to explore and share whatever it is you’re passionate about for a handful of Benjamins (or Lincolns, depending).
Moreover, just because you don’t write short nonfiction doesn’t mean you should overlook freelance writing. There’s a lot that anyone, from the aspiring novelist to the memoirist to the book-length-anything writer, can benefit from by penning and selling articles.
So come listen to us ramble about how and why. We promise it won’t be boring. And that it might just be funny and highly entertaining. And, of course, that we won’t wear custom vests.
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