Freelance Business Writer
Freelance Writing Business : Part III : How to Increase Your Freelance Sales in a Recession
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Freelance Copy Writer Service~BUSINESS PLAN~Word/Excel $0.00 |
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Freelance Copy Writer Service~BUSINESS PLAN~Word/Excel $0.00 |
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Freelance Copy Writer Service~BUSINESS PLAN~Word/Excel $0.00 |
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Make $50,000 A Year As A Free-Lance Business Writer $0.00 |
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How to Build an Article Writing Business and Earn $100 an Hour! $4.79 If you are a writer struggling to make money from your craft then this is the book for you. It is possible to make serious money from writing if you know how. This 25 page guide presents a series of 10 lessons on exactly how you can build an article writing business and earn $100 an hour! Imagine… having your own business which allows you to get up when you want and work from the comfort of home… |
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The Quick and Easy Guide To Making Money as a Freelance Writer (Home Business 101) RAVE REVIEWS“I’ve always wanted to be a freelance writer…this book has shown me how to make that happen. Good plan that sounds very workable to me.”“I enjoyed reading this, and found that it was full of good information that I could really use to advantage. I think it will get my freelance writing career off to a good start.”“Good primer on getting started in the freelance writing bu… |
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Quit Your Rotten Job…and Become a Successful Freelance Writer Instead: The Quick and Easy Way To Launch a Writing Career RAVE REVIEWS“This is a good read. I have always wanted to be a freelance writer instead of doing a day job, and this has really made me think I could make it happen.”“I have read a few books about home-based jobs, but this one seems the most credible to me. I can see how I could put this into action and make it work.”“Wow! I never dreamed freelance writers could make over a million dolla… |
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Macware MacFreelance $8.88 You don t need to be an accounting genius to manage your own business. Spend less time on paperwork and more on your projects by managing your workload with MacFreelance. Easily add new clients monitor time spent on projects track mileage and payments use international formatting generate reports for record keeping and more. Print or email customizable invoices to get paid quicker and maintain a … |
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$100,000 Writer: How to Make a Six-Figure Income as a Freelance Business Writer $1.89 Nancy Flynn,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Adams Media Corporation |
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A Cup Of Coffee $14.02 John Wilkinson, a successful American entrepreneur, doesn’t know why his first attempt to branch out to the Middle East failed so miserably. Heading home in defeat, John meets Sultan, a chance encounter that changes everything. After hearing John’s story, Sultan recognizes John’s failure didn’t result from a bad business model. Rather, John made the fatal mistake of not understanding and accepting how business is conducted in the Middle East. Sultan invites John back to Oman to try again, this time with guidance, instruction, and proper introductions. With Sultan as his mentor, John quickly learns his hardcharging Western style must surrender to very different values rooted in ancient tribal customs and traditions. Dr. Salem Ben Nasser Al-Ismaily is the Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Omani Centre for Investment Promotion and Export Development (OCIPED). Before joining OCIPED in 1996, he was the Managing Director of Public Establishment for Industrial Estates (PEIE) for twelve years, establishing the first industrial estates in Oman. He also serves as a chairman and director in several oil, financial services, and research companies. He has received degrees in Liberal Arts, Telecommunications, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Management, and Philosophy from universities in the United Kingdom and USA. Dr. Al-Ismaily is instrumental in promoting trade relations between Oman and USA. His book, Inside the Omani Corporate Culture – A Research in Management Styles, co-authored with Professor Peter McKiernan of the University of St.Andrews, is the academic foundation of this story. Richard Tzudiker is a freelance writer with a Bachelor’s Degreein English from Colgate University and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Denver. He spent half his childhood in Europe and most of his professional career with multinational minerals companies. He is currently an investment and trust account |
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A Glimmer of Hope $8.11 Luke Rosentino and Claire Bennett are professors at a small southern university. They meet at a time when both their lives are being turned upside down by fate. Claire’s marriage is ending after she finds her husband to be unfaithful. At the same time, Luke’s daughter comes to live with him after her mother’s death. Claire’s husband, Dennis, is struggling with his own demons and decides to kidnap Luke’s daughter with the help of his former lover, Becky. However, Becky has secrets of her own that could jeopardize Dennis’ plan. Police and FBI must intervene before Dennis’ murderous rage shatters all possible glimmers of hope. “A Glimmer of Hope” is a taut, suspense-filled story about anger, jealousy, new beginnings, love, marriage and family relationships. It’s about the choices that we make and how they affect the people around us.Beth Davis earned a bachelor’s in journalism from the University of South Carolina in 2000. She worked as a freelance writer for The Florida Times-Union and as a reporter for The Business Journal, both papers in Jacksonville, FL. She is a member of the Florida Writers Association and lives in Jacksonville with her husband, Ted. She is the mother of Amanda and Bradley and stepmother of Ted III. She founded Writerjax Publishing in 2010 and this is her first novel. |
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A Writer on Writing – The Building Blocks of Nonfiction $17.95 Interested in developing a freelance nonfiction writing career or expanding your business through publication? While other sectors struggle, nonfiction writing remains the bread and butter of the publication industry. Wright”s instructor approach is designed to identify a niche and its required publication format. As a veteran freelance and business writer, Wright shares the building blocks – strategies and tips that enabled her international publication with media such as the Journal of Systems Management, Your Computer Career and Green Profit magazines as well as her current avocation, environmental. Recognized as a contributing writer and communications instructor, Wright has taught communications for the VA Community College system. |
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Angel Financing: How to Find and Invest in Private Equity $65 Gerald A. Benjamin (Sausalito, CA) is a Senior Managing Partner of International Capital Resources (ICR), an investment banking, corporate finance, and capital sourcing firm. He is also publisher of the California Investment Review. Joel Margulis (Mill Valley, CA) is a freelance writer who has published books and articles on a range of business and finance topics. |
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BOOK PROPOSALS THAT WORKED! Real Book Proposals That Landed $10K – $100K Publishing Contracts $28.7 Peek over the shoulders of highly successful, published authors to see how they landed publishing contracts worth $10,000 to $100,000! An enticing yet professional book proposal is the key!In these pages, you’ll find real book proposals that landed these publishing contracts: Simon and Schuster – $100,000; MIRA Books – “Six-Figure Advance”; Ghostwriting Former CEO’s Memoirs – $50,000; Ghostwriting Business Book for CEO – $40,000; Five Separate Publishing Contracts from One Proposal – $37,694.00; Music Sales Corporation – $25,000; Berkeley Books – $20,000; Osborne/McGraw-Hill – $19,500; Kensington Publishing Corp. – $17,500; Billboard Books – $17,500; Confidential Ghostwriting Contract – $15,000; Random House – $15,000; Que Publishers – $12,500; Prentice Hall – $11,000; The Vegetarian Resource – $10,000; Da Capo Press – $10,000; and Adams Media – $10,000. Genres of the books featured range from fiction to celebrity biographies, business, medical, memoirs, nutrition/cooking, sports, true crime, freelance writing, and more!From a “pitch sheet” distributed by an author at a writer’s conference, to a professional “manuscript evaluation” by a ghostwriter, to full-blown book proposals that look like books in themselves, you’ll find it all right here – everything you need to write and/or polish your own book proposal to perfection!BONUS! Successful ghostwriter, Anton Marco, shares his secret for landing ghostwriting clients. Don’t miss Anton’s real ghostwriting contract at the end of this book! It provides an example of what he charges and the payment terms he requires from each client. |
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Be a Freelance Writer Now: A Quick Guide to Starting Your Business Today $2.99 Adria Laycraft,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Adria Laycraft, via Smashwords |
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Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail $25.99 Planner and originator of the Appalachian Trail and a cofounder of the Wilderness Society, Benton MacKaye (1879-1975) was a pioneer in linking the concepts of preservation, recreation, and regional planning. This pathbreaking biography provides the first complete portrait of this significant and unique figure in American environmental, intellectual, and cultural history.”A superb and much-anticipated biography of Benton MacKaye. Rich in detail (a sign of Anderson’s diligent research) and smart in its analysis (an indication of his supple intellect), the book brings the often-quirky MacKaye to life… A remarkable achievement.”— Journal of Forestry”A first-rate biography of a unique American thinker.”— Journal of American History”Anderson does an impressive job of bringing an enigmatic figure into sharper focus and shedding light on the long list of important contributions MacKaye made to the American environmental movement… A readable, engrossing biography.”— Appalachia”Anderson’s lucid, well-researched, and sensitive story provides an illuminating on-the-ground snapshot of the inner workings of the intellectual networks, social relationships, governmental and business institutions, particular projects, and downright good and bad luck that constitute the fabric of historical movements such as conservation and regional planning.”— Environmental History”This first detailed biography of MacKaye should become the standard account of his life and work.”— APA JournalLarry Anderson is a freelance writer and independent scholar. |
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Covering the Business Beat: Strategies for Publishing What You Write $19.95 Covering the Business Beat is targeted specifically to the millions of Americans in business such as the entrepeneur who wants to be known as an expert in her field or the guy in the mailroom who dreams of being a freelance writer. The authors advise readers to start in the industry they’re working in now, drawing on their knowledge, background and contacts as a solid base from which to launch a part­time or full-time writing career. This practical guide shows readers how to use sound business principles and practices such as networking, niche marketing, and running writing like a business to make a successful writing career. |
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Death by Pantyhose (Jaine Austen Series #6) $0.11 Freelance writer Jaine Austen is back! This time around she’s writing jokes for a female comic in order to make a buck. But when the comic’s male rival is found dead, strangled by a pair of pantyhose, and Jaine’s client is arrested, it’s once again up to her to figure out whodunit. Jaine Austen has never been able to resist the siren call of an Eskimo Pie, just like she can’t resist renewing her romance with Andrew, an old crush. With her bank account hitting new lows, she’s also just agreed to write jokes for Dorcas, a stand-up comic who throws her pantyhose into the audience as a punch line.Not only is Dorcas’s act a bomb, she is heckled by Vic, a gorgeous fellow comic who is equally good on stage and in the sack. Unfortunately Vic loves performing in both venues. He gets in bed with a sexy waitress, a pretty new lover, and a sweet girlfriend while professing his undying love for each. Worse, he is two-timing his aging agent. Pretty soon Vic has an enemy’s list a mile long, and when he needles Dorcas one time too many, she assaults him at a club’s open-mike night.Naturally when Vic is murdered with Dorcas’s pantyhose and that same Dorcas is standing over his dead body, the police arrest…Dorcas. They figure it’s an open-and-shut case although Jaine figures no killer can be that dumb-even Dorcas. But when Jaine sets out to find the real culprit, she is distracted by one dating disaster after another with Andrew-and she may not see the dark side of comedy until she faces the business end of a gun and a cold, deadly grin… |
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Diamonds In The Raw $17.07 Diamonds in the Raw will take you on a trip through Washington DC’s inner-city streets in search of talented musicians struggling to survive in a game in which the odds are stacked against them. The story is about the talented artists from the DMV (District, Maryland and Virginia).This book is based on first hand accounts from the artists themselves. They poignantly describe the trials and tribulations of making an honest living in the often dishonest realm of the music business. It is a story of perseverance and redemption. You will read about the complicated relationship between DC rappers and the local radio stations; the competition between hip-hop and DC’s indigenous go-go culture; and about the difficulty to keep pace with the constantly advancing technology of music. To create this portrait of the DMV Music Movement, Mr. Thomas has interviewed some the most important names in the industry. You will read about colorful characters like: Brother Maniac,Iceberg Slim, Dre “All Day In The Paint”, Whitefolkz, Lady Venom and Kingpin Slim.Diamonds in the Raw is equal parts autobiography, text-book, and almanac. For the first time ever in a literary format – step into the world of the DMV! Sidney “DCSuperSid” Thomas is a freelance writer and native Washingtonian who is passionate about all genres of music, especially DC’s urban music scene. He has had numerous poems, articles and photographs published in local periodicals. Mr. Thomas is a columnist for DC hip-hop magazine The Kapital, he is a contributing writer for the nationally distributed Ozone hip-hop music magazine, and he also covers Washington DC entertainment and politics for www.realnewsmag.com. Mr. Thomas is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, and resides in Upper Marlboro, MD with his wife and children. |
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Employee Ownership: The New Source of Competitive Advantage $1.99 An incentive guaranteed to pique employee interest: ownership! Working harder just gets the boss richer. At least, that’s what employees think. So give employees a reason to take their work personally with the most personal incentive yet: ownership. Extolled by some as the tonic to cure whatever ails the capitalist system, advocated by others as a way for reconciling the interests of labor and management, touted as a retention device for valuable talent, employee ownership has found enthusiasts throughout the political, organizational, and academic communities. Employee Ownership describes ten compelling and dramatic stories of Canadian companies that have implemented employee ownership programs and vividly portrays the advantages, challenges, disappointments, and triumphs of real managers and employees who have made this transition. Carol Beatty, PhD (Kingston, Ontario), is Director of the School of Industrial Relations and the Industrial Relations Centre at Queen’s University where she is also Associate Professor in the School of Business. Harvey Schachter (Kingston, Ontario) is an award-winning freelance writer, veteran journalist, and former editor of the Kingston Whig-Standard. |
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Epublishing for Dummies with CDROM $81.59 Make your dream of writing and getting published a reality using this complete guide. The ePublishing explosion has caused everyone to ask questions about electronic book formats, how to eMarket their work and if they can create their own ePublishing business. This book will show you how to effectively package knowledge for the right audience, in the correct format, and the best way to market the resulting product. This book will showcase the most effective tools for authors and publishing entrepreneurs to build an internet-based publishing business, but will also benefit students who want to start a profitable part-time enterprise or a freelance writer searching for new projects. |
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Fender Benders $0.99 In his first three novels, Bill Fitzhugh created new strains of homicidal insects, sliced open the illegal transplant business, and sinfully skewered the Church and Madison Avenue with the same spear. Now he turns his attention to the hitmaking machinery of Music City, U.S.A.Depending on your point of view, Fender Benders is either a skewed look at the country music industry or a clear-eyed view of a damn screwy business. It’s a Grand Old Opera complete with murder, treachery, greed, drugs, twangy music, a love triangle, and the best fried swimps you’ll ever put in your mouth.First off, some folks down South have taken to dropping like flies. One minute they have a headache, the next they have a date at the funeral home. Seems some lunatic is tampering with boxes of headache powder, lacing them with sodium fluoroacetate. It’s a nasty death, but at least it’s quick, and it makes you forget you had a headache.Second off, Eddie Long wants to move to Nashville and become a country music star, but right now he’s stuck in Hinchcliff, Mississippi. Eddie’s big break comes with a contract to tour the Mississippi casino circuit. While he’s on the road, his wife dies, the victim of an apparent serial killer. The emotional turmoil of his wife’s death causes Eddie to write the best song of his life. He takes it to Nashville, hooks up with a hoary management company, and launches his career.Meanwhile, Jimmy Rogers is a freelance writer covering the Mississippi music scene. He loves writing and a girl named Megan. Jimmy decides early on that he is going to write Eddie’s biography. But as he’s researching Eddie’s wife’s murder, Jimmy comes to a surprising conclusion. He can’t proveit, but publishing it might make his own career.Megan is a smart, talented, and popular radio personality in a tiny market. But she wants a faster way to Easy Street. So she turns to Eddie. In Nashville.Before it’s all over, everybody’s planning to make a killing one way or another |
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Freelancing for Newspapers $5.98 Pick up the Sunday paper and consider how many stories it takes to fill all those pages. How can any newspaper staff produce so many stories every day, every week, every month of the year and keep up with breaking news, too? They can’t.They use freelancers. This book serves as a guide to newspaper freelancing both for beginners and for more experienced writers who want to expand their markets. Table of Contents: Newspapers as a Freelance Market Developing Newspaper Article Ideas Types of Newspaper Articles Queries: Pitching Your Ideas Researching Your Article Interviews Writing the Article Working with the Editor Through Rewrites and Proofs Get Paid and Get More Assignments The Business of Being a Freelance Writer |
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Future-Consumer.Com: The Web Lifestyle in 2010 $1.21 Here’s a list to pay close attention to. Established in 1991, Warwick Publishing Inc. is among North America’s fastest-growing producers of high-quality daily interest non-fiction books, with a list of over 100 titles in print. These books are solid sellers and have attracted strong loyalty with consumers across the continent — an asset to any store’s shelves. This list includes works by internationally acclaimed nature photographer Tui De Roy; best-selling sports writers Stan Fischler, Howard Berger and Ron McCulloch; popular television personality Chef Pasquale and hip 20-something food writer Amy Rosen; renowned business futurist Frank Feather, minority rights business author Anthony Stith, and the widely popular personal finance/lifestyle writer Charles Long, whose book How to Survive Without A Salary has sold over 150,000 copies. Warwick books have won or been nominated for numerous awards nationally and internationally; most recently, Nora Gold won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for her story collection, Marrow, and photographer Tui De Roy was nominated for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Award (University of San Francisco) for her book Galapagos: Islands of Fire. Also, in 1997, Charles Long was short-listed for the Chapters/Books in Canada first novel award for Undefended Borders. Warwick principals, president James A. Williamson and publisher Nick Pitt have been part of government-initiated trade missions to China (August 1996 and September 1998) and Washington (March 1998). Profitable since its inception, Warwick went public in November 1997 on the Alberta Stock Exchange in Canada. It has seven full-time employees and an active list of regular freelance contributors. |
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Handbook for Freelance Writing $5.46 Straightforward and practical, the HANDBOOK FOR FREELANCE WRITING tells you everything you need to know to build a thriving business as a freelance writer. From sales brochures to short stories, you’ll learn how to get assignments, get published, and get paid promptly. Throughout the book, you’ll benefit from proven strategies and real-world advice on every aspect of a freelance writing career. |
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Hellbender $8.19 AN INCIDENT HAS OCCURRED IN THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS … Several boats have been destroyed by an inexplicable predator, and puzzling biological samples have been left behind. An attack in front of many witnesses draws media, military, accredited scientists, and bilious cryptozoologist Carl Curtis, who believes his hypothesis of an ancient species confirmed. Lieutenant Sadie Krszczynski has had an uphill battle convincing the Coast Guard that her talents and competence outweigh the liability of her color blindness. But suddenly her vision deficiencies make her uniquely qualified to see an animal perfectly adapted for ocean camouflage. Introspective ex-homicide detective Trey Johnson has come to the islands to escape his past. Now in business for himself, he lands a pair of missing-persons cases that lead him to the mystery on the water and put him back in the limelight-for better or worse.Suddenly the sleepy islands are a hive of grandstanders, trophy hunters, and opportunistic drug traffickers, and Sadie and Trey find their lives increasingly entangled as the hysteria explodes. ABOUT THE AUTHORRobert William Grofe was born in Philadelphia and has lived in the area for most of his life. He currently resides in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. He holds a B.A. in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins and has been writing professionally for 15 years. During college, he was a staff writer and illustrator for the student-run Black and Blue Jay in Baltimore and regular cartoonist for the university newsletter. He worked as a freelance reporter for the Newtown Square County Press before joining The Vanguard Group in Malvern, where he now copy edits corporate reports and marketing materials.He enjoys traveling and has spent many weeks sailing in the Caribbean and the Chesapeake Bay, which he believes has fueled many of his ideas. He writes fiction in his spare time (mainly during months while football is in its off-season); he has completed three novels and various short |
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Home Based Business Ideas $5 Home Based Business IdeasHere are the contents: Home Based Business Day Care * At Home Accounting Business * At Home Bridal Consultant Business * At Home Business In Medical Or Legal Coding * At Home Tutoring Home Based Jobs * Blogging As A Home Based Business * Desktop Publishing At Home Job * Home Based Business as a Real Estate Agent * Home Based Business Ideas In Creative Arts * Home Based Business In MLM Industry * Home Based Tax Preparation Business * Home Based Business as a Freelance Writer * Home Based Business as a Personal Trainer * Home Based Business As A Web Designer * Work at Home Freelance Consultant Career * Home Based Businesses With Children’s Products * Home Based eBay Business * Home Based Financial Aid Provider * Home Based Jobs In The Pet Industry * Selling Insurance As A Work At Home Business * Telemarketing as a Home Based Business * Work at Home as a Direct Seller * Work At Home As An Affiliate |
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How to Do Everything With Your TiVo $4.31 From the Publisher: Maximize and expand your television viewing using TiVo and this easy-to-use guide. You ll find step-by-step instructions on how to connect your TiVo to your media center, pause and rewind live TV, enjoy instant replay, and hook your TiVo up with your wired or wireless home network. You ll even learn how to give slideshows of your photographs on your TV screen. Plus, get helpful TiVo hacks such as replacing your full hard drive and finding remote control shortcuts. Search for and record programs Rate programs and change your rating Edit, delete, or change the priority of your Season Passes using the Season Pass Manager Display and share your photo library using Acrobat Photoshop Album or Lifescape Inc. s Picasa Schedule recordings remotely on the Internet Set up two TiVos and use the multi-room viewing feature to transfer programs between your TiVos Record shows and even home movies onto DVD using your combination TiVo-DVD recorder Hack your TiVo by removing the TiVo hard drive and installing it onto your PC Enable 30-second skip and backdoor mode About the Author: Todd W. Carter is an avid DVR user and full-time freelance writer who writes mostly about business and technology. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Detroit Free Press, MSNBC.com, Home Office Computing magazine, and other outlets. He is the author of several computer books. Michael Bellomo, MBA, has written nine books involving technology and how it relates to modern business. He is the co-author of McGraw-Hill/Osborne s forthcoming book, eBay Your Business: Maximize Sales and Get Results. |
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I Barf, Therefore I Am $22.95 Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times says, Laughter, tears, and the indomitable spirit – they”re front and center as Jerry Perisho details his very personal war with prostate cancer. Jerry Perisho has been a CEO or senior officer with various southern California corporations since 1982. Additionally, he is a professional freelance comedy writer who created and operated a very successful joke writing business. When he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2004 at the age of 52, he discovered that his cockeyed view of the world and his sense of humor helped him survive the surgery, chemotherapy and two years of hormone therapy that were to follow. In fact, he flourished. This is his tender and hilarious story of the tears, the fears and the many funny things and amazing people he has encountered since cancer entered his personal world. |
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Little White Lies $0.99 Pippa Hunnechurch scoffs at the idea that God cares about her future. So with economic hard times on the horizon, Pippa concludes she is on her own. Owning her own executive recruiting firm, her luck seems to improve when she nails down a plum assignment and teams up with a highly successful “headhunter,” Marsha Morgan. Pippa’s joy turns to confusion when Marsha drowns in what everyone assumes is a freak accident. As Pippa struggles on, she finds herself caught in a web of deceit-spun out of the harmless exaggerations that Marsha had put in the resumes of her most successful candidates. After another death-this one clearly not an accident-Pippa is in a terrible dilemma. If she cooperates with the police, she will ruin her own reputation and destroy the careers of four celebrated executives. If she remains silent, she will become the target of a ruthless murderer. But Pippa does have one ally. A genuine Christian soldier, who understands that in the midst of a battle to save her business, her reputation, and ultimately her life, Pippa needs most to put the Lord back in her life again.Author Biography: Ron Benrey is an award-winning writer who has authored hundreds of business articles, six books, a thousand plus magazine articles, and many major speeches for the CEOs of Fortune 100 companies. Janet Benrey has written an extensive variety of public relations and marketing communications materials and has in recent years branched into book marketing and promotion. The Benreys reside in Columbia, Maryland, where they are cofounders of Benrey+Benrey, a successful freelance writing firm. |
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Lonely on the Mountain: A Skier’s Memoir $18.58 Skier, climber and photographer George Henderson has lived a life of adventure and now in his 90th year relives some of those adventures in this memoir, Lonely on the Mountain. However, the book is more than the memoir of one man – it is also the memoir of a mountain – Mount Hood – from the 1920s to World War II. The book begins with an account of George’s childhood. In 1920 the family moved to Montana where his father built a modern sawmill on the Flathead Indian Reservation. During the next 10 years, they lived in western Montana and Idaho, following the fortunes of the lumber business. By 1930 when George entered high school in Portland, Oregon, he had trapped fur in the Bitterroot Range, panned gold and driven four-horse freight wagons in the Clearwater Range at Headquarters, Idaho, and learned downhill skiing from a protege of Austria’s Hannes Schneider. Right after finishing high school, he climbed to the summit of Mount Hood five times, the summit of Mount Adams twice, and the summit of Mount St. Helens once. In 1935 in the middle of the Great Depression George quit his mind-numbing job as a variety store trainee and struck out on his own as a freelance writer, photographer, and publicist. Downhill and slalom skiing were just emerging in the western United States. For the next eight years, he rode the ever-increasing wave of its popularity and was somehow involved in almost every winter sports event on Mount Hood before World War II, from publicist to organizer and often as a participant. Perhaps his most visible and lasting contribution to the history of Mount Hood was his early involvement in the growth of world-renowned Timberline Lodge. It started with a publicitypicture he made of 18-year-old Delores Enebo, standing on a snow bank in a bathing suit at the future site of the lodge. It ended, temporarily, on December 7, 1941, when just as he returned from a three-month publicity tour of the Midwest and East Coast the Japanese attacked Pearl Har |
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Make Big Profits on eBay: The Ultimate Guide for Building a Business on eBay $1.99 For 25 years, Entrepreneur magazine has been advising people on how to start their own businesses. Now, Entrepreneur focuses that expertise on the hottest new way to start a business: on eBay!Make Big Profits on eBay combines Entrepreneur’s expertise in all things business with new strategies for the eBay world. This book isn’t for people who want to make a little extra cash selling old knickknacks. It’s for people like you who are serious about starting their own ultra-successful businesses on eBay.Make Big Profits on eBay: Teaches you how to best take advantage of eBay features like paid listings, keywords, photos, the “About Me” page and more Applies cutting-edge, proven strategies for marketing, customer service, money management and business operation specifically for use on eBay Lets you in no how PowerSellers got to the top—not just their success stories, but also their secret tips, techniques and mistakes to avoid Shows you hidden ways of making money on eBay without selling a thing! The expert advice will guide you from eBay novice to PowerSeller quickly and easily so you can start your own million-dollar business.Jacquelyn Lynn (Winter Springs, FL) is a widely published business writer whose work has appeared in more than 100 regional, national, and international publications. She is a columnist for Entrepreneur Media’s business start-up guides, including How to Start a Business on eBay.Charlene Davis (Oviedo, FL) is an experienced freelance business writer and editor, with an expertise in e-commerce. She is the coauthor with Jacquelyn Lynn of How to Start a Senior Services Business, an Entrepreneur Media start-up guide. |
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Murder at Union Station $9.69 When Washington’s splendid Union Station opened its doors in 1908, the glorious structure epitomized capital stylishness. Today, restored and refurbished, the station is again a hub of activity where the world’s most famous and infamous people meet-and often collide. Now, in Margaret Truman’s new Capital Crime novel, this landmark locale becomes the scene of a sensational shooting whose consequences ricochet from seedy bars to the halls of Congress. Historic Union Station means nothing to the elderly man speeding south on the last lap of what turns out to be a one-way journey from Tel Aviv to D.C.-on a train that will soon land him at Gate A-8 and, moments later, at St. Peter’s Gate. This weary traveler, whose terminal destination is probably hell, is Louis Russo, former mob hit man and government informer. Two men are at the station to meet him. One is Richard Marienthal, a young writer whose forthcoming book is based on Russo’s life. The other is the man who kills him. Russo has returned to help promote Marienthal’s book, which, although no one has been allowed to read it, already has some people shaking in their Gucci boots. The powerful fear the contents will not only expose organized crime’s nefarious business, but also a top-secret assignment abroad that Russo once masterminded for a very-high-profile Capitol Hill client. As news of Russo’s murder rockets from the MPD to the FBI and the CIA, from Congress to the West Wing, the final chapter of the story begins its rapid-fire unfolding. In addition to the bewildered Marienthal and his worried girlfriend, there is an array of memorable characters: rock-ribbed right-wing Senator Karl Widmer; ruthless New York publisherPamela Warren; boozy MPD Detective Bret Mullin; shoe-shine virtuoso Joe Jenks; dedicated presidential political adviser Chet Fletcher; and President Adam Parmele himself-not to mention freelance snoops, blow-dried climbers, and a killer or two. There’s no place like the nation’s capital, |
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Murder at Union Station $108.81 When Washington’s splendid Union Station opened its doors in 1908, the glorious structure epitomized capital stylishness. Today, restored and refurbished, the station is again a hub of activity where the world’s most famous and infamous people meet-and often collide. Now, in Margaret Truman’s new Capital Crime novel, this landmark locale becomes the scene of a sensational shooting whose consequences ricochet from seedy bars to the halls of Congress. Historic Union Station means nothing to the elderly man speeding south on the last lap of what turns out to be a one-way journey from Tel Aviv to D.C.-on a train that will soon land him at Gate A-8 and, moments later, at St. Peter’s Gate. This weary traveler, whose terminal destination is probably hell, is Louis Russo, former mob hit man and government informer. Two men are at the station to meet him. One is Richard Marienthal, a young writer whose forthcoming book is based on Russo’s life. The other is the man who kills him. Russo has returned to help promote Marienthal’s book, which, although no one has been allowed to read it, already has some people shaking in their Gucci boots. The powerful fear the contents will not only expose organized crime’s nefarious business, but also a top-secret assignment abroad that Russo once masterminded for a very-high-profile Capitol Hill client. As news of Russo’s murder rockets from the MPD to the FBI and the CIA, from Congress to the West Wing, the final chapter of the story begins its rapid-fire unfolding. In addition to the bewildered Marienthal and his worried girlfriend, there is an array of memorable characters: rock-ribbed right-wing Senator Karl Widmer; ruthless New York publisherPamela Warren; boozy MPD Detective Bret Mullin; shoe-shine virtuoso Joe Jenks; dedicated presidential political adviser Chet Fletcher; and President Adam Parmele himself-not to mention freelance snoops, blow-dried climbers, and a killer or two. There’s no place like the nation’s capital, |
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Murder at Union Station (Capital Crimes Series #20) $0.99 Historic Union Station means nothing to the elderly man speeding south on the last lap of what will turn out to be a one-way journey from Tel Aviv to D.C. – on a train that will soon land him at Gate A-8 and, moments later, at St. Peter’s Gate. This weary traveler, whose terminal destination is probably hell, is Louis Russo, former mob hit man and government informer. Two men are at the station to meet him. One is Richard Marienthal, a young writer whose forthcoming book is based on Russo’s life. The other is the man who’ll kill him.Russo has returned to help promote Marienthal’s book, which, although no one has been allowed to read it, already has some people shaking in their Gucci boots. Those in power fear that the contents will expose not only organized crime’s nefarious business but also a top-secret assignment abroad that Russo once masterminded for a very-high-profile Capitol Hill client. As news of Russo’s murder rockets from the MPD to the FBI and the CIA, from Congress to the West Wing, the final chapter of the story begins its rapid-fire unfolding.In addition to the bewildered Marienthal and his worried girlfriend, Murder at Union Station features an array of memorable characters: rock-ribbed right-wing Senator Karl Widmer; ruthless New York publisher Pamela Warren; boozy MPD Detective Bret Mullin; shoe-shine virtuoso Joe Jenks; dedicated presidential political adviser Chet Fletcher; and President Adam Parmele himself – not to mention freelance snoops, blow-dried climbers, and a killer or two. There’s no place like the nation’s capital, and as her myriad fans know, Margaret Truman always gets it right. Murder at Union Station is a luxury express, nonstop delight. |
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Murder at Union Station (Capital Crimes Series #20) $1.99 Historic Union Station means nothing to the elderly man speeding south on the last lap of what will turn out to be a one-way journey from Tel Aviv to D.C. – on a train that will soon land him at Gate A-8 and, moments later, at St. Peter’s Gate. This weary traveler, whose terminal destination is probably hell, is Louis Russo, former mob hit man and government informer. Two men are at the station to meet him. One is Richard Marienthal, a young writer whose forthcoming book is based on Russo’s life. The other is the man who’ll kill him.Russo has returned to help promote Marienthal’s book, which, although no one has been allowed to read it, already has some people shaking in their Gucci boots. Those in power fear that the contents will expose not only organized crime’s nefarious business but also a top-secret assignment abroad that Russo once masterminded for a very-high-profile Capitol Hill client. As news of Russo’s murder rockets from the MPD to the FBI and the CIA, from Congress to the West Wing, the final chapter of the story begins its rapid-fire unfolding.In addition to the bewildered Marienthal and his worried girlfriend, Murder at Union Station features an array of memorable characters: rock-ribbed right-wing Senator Karl Widmer; ruthless New York publisher Pamela Warren; boozy MPD Detective Bret Mullin; shoe-shine virtuoso Joe Jenks; dedicated presidential political adviser Chet Fletcher; and President Adam Parmele himself – not to mention freelance snoops, blow-dried climbers, and a killer or two. There’s no place like the nation’s capital, and as her myriad fans know, Margaret Truman always gets it right. Murder at Union Station is a luxury express, nonstop delight. |
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PWAC Guide to Editing as a Sideline: The Freelance Writer’s Guide to Setting-Up an Editing Business $9.99 Denyse O’Leary,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Lulu.com |
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Punching In: The Unauthorized Adventures of a Front-Line Employee $10.99 It’s just possible that the UPS guy who asked you to sign for a recent delivery was the author of this book. For two years, freelance writer Alex Frankel went undercover to investigate business cultures at large companies including Starbucks, the Gap, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Whole Foods, and The Container Store. What he discovered about laboring in retail and services industries will surprise readers, reassuring some and alarming others. An all-purpose access card into “Employees Only” sections. |
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Red $14.95 In part, Red is a literary thriller in the European tradition, focusing on mysterious art collectors and the curious machinations of Dr. Mabuse (who may or may not be the devil). But as it moves cinematically from the English Civil War to the Mexican Revolution and from Venice to New York, there is much more to this story.”A haunting series of vignettes in which food, wine, and physicality build their own hypnotic course of eroticism, satiety, and ennui. A startlingly original novel, masterfully constructed.”-Sebastian Beaumont, author of The Linguist.Richard James worked in the wine business before becoming a freelance writer, specializing in wine, food, and travel. He lives in Manchester, England, but plans to move to the Mediterranean. |
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Riding for the Brand: The Power of Purposeful Leadership $14.95 Riding for the Brand is a western that’s set in the future. It’s a short novel about leadership, human motivation and change. The story revolves around two men: Bob Fooshee, a freelance writer, and Burns Marcus, a rancher who builds a business empire. The year is 2030, and Fooshee is dispatched by a magazine to write about Marcus, whose ranch was near bankruptcy 25 years earlier. It was then that Marcus, searching for answers, attended the cattlemen’s convention in San Antonio and heard a speaker who provoked him to radically change the way he approached his business. This was the catalyst that led Marcus to start Diamond Enterprises, which becomes the model organization of the 21st century. While interviewing Burns at his ranch in Oklahoma, Bob rides pasture, ropes a few steers and discovers the key to Burns Marcus’ success – the power of purposeful leadership. |
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Road Map to Your Writing Career: Becoming a Fulltime Freelance Writer $12.42 Think you’re ready to take the plunge into a full-time free-lance writing career? This hands-on resource provides scores of real-life success tips for becoming a professional full-time writer — all based on solid experience.This guide approaches writing as a career where hard work and management skills are just as important as talent. Readers will discover how they can plan their transition to a full-time writing career; tips for managing cash flow, accounting, taxes and other business issues; detailed plans for generating income as a writer in non-traditional ways; and much more. They’ll also find many ready-to-use checklists as well as helpful lists of writers organizations, online writers networks, and other resources specifically targeted for the working writer. |
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Secrets of a Freelance Writer $18 The definitive guide to becoming a successful freelance writer, now in an updated and expanded third edition Secrets of a Freelance Writer has long been the authoritative guide to making big money as a commercial freelance writer. In this new edition, you”ll find out how to make $100,000 a year–or much more–writing ads, annual reports, brochures, catalogs, newsletters, direct mail, Web pages, CD-ROMs, press releases, and other projects for corporations, small businesses, associations, nonprofit organizations, the government, and other commercial clients.You”ll also learn how to start out as a freelancer, market yourself to clients, create a successful personal Web site to cull more sales leads, follow up on potential customers to build your practice, and run your business on a day-to-day basis. Secrets of a Freelance Writer is the definitive guide to building a successful and lucrative freelance writing practice. |
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The Canadian Writer’s Market $23.95 The essential guide for freelance writers, now completely updated and revised. The Canadian Writer”s Market is the authority on who publishes what and how best to bring your work to their attention. It offers practical advice on everything from manuscript preparation to copyright law, from information on pay rates to writers” workshops. This useful guide also includes comprehensive and up-to-date listings for: comsumer magazines; literary and scholarly journals; trade, business, and professional publications; daily newspapers; book publishers; literary agents; awards, competitions, and grants; writers” organizations and support agencies; writers” workshops, courses, and retreats. |
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The Day Trader: From the Pit to the PC $29.95 LEWIS J. BORSELLINO is the top S&P futures trader in the United States with a career that has spanned an unprecedented 18 years. His long-term success puts him into the trading pantheon that features such luminaries as Paul Tudor Jones, Victor Niederhoffer, and bond trader Tom Baldwin. Borsellino is a frequent contributing commentator on CNN and CNBC where he is regarded as the biggest and best trader in S&Ps. PATRICIA CRISAFULLI COMMINS is a freelance business writer and former correspondent for Reuters America Inc. She has also written for The Christian Science Monitor and the Wall Street Journal. |
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The Everything Online Auctions Book $14.95 The Everything Online Auctions Book is an inside look at how to buy or sell anything on eBay and other notable online auction sites. Steve Encell, one of the most successful dealers in the field of online auctions, gives readers the real low down on the online marketplace. Including:Finding the right sites to buy or sell Tips on how to avoid scams, fraud, and identity theft Taking advantage of perks and promotions Organizing and maximizing business earning potential 50-plus screenshots for step-by-step instruction Author Biography:Steve Encell (Santa Barbara, CA) has been running his own successful antiques, art, and collectibles business for more than fifteen years and has over five years of experience selling items on online auctions. He has averaged earnings of at least $100,000 a year exclusively via online auctions. Si Dunn (Denton, TX) is a veteran freelance writer whose credits include newspaper articles, magazine articles, screenplays, and a book. |
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The Everything Online Auctions Book: All You Need to Buy and Sell with Success–on eBay and Beyond $1.99 The Everything Online Auctions Book is an inside look at how to buy or sell anything on eBay and other notable online auction sites. Steve Encell, one of the most successful dealers in the field of online auctions, gives readers the real low down on the online marketplace. Including:Finding the right sites to buy or sell Tips on how to avoid scams, fraud, and identity theft Taking advantage of perks and promotions Organizing and maximizing business earning potential 50-plus screenshots for step-by-step instruction Author Biography:Steve Encell (Santa Barbara, CA) has been running his own successful antiques, art, and collectibles business for more than fifteen years and has over five years of experience selling items on online auctions. He has averaged earnings of at least $100,000 a year exclusively via online auctions. Si Dunn (Denton, TX) is a veteran freelance writer whose credits include newspaper articles, magazine articles, screenplays, and a book. |
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The Freelance Writer’s Bible: Your Guide to a Profitable Writing Career Within One Year $19.95 The Freelance Writer’s Bible unites four practical workbooks under one cover. ? Discover your creative vision Find yourself as a writer. ? Write with freedom and confidence Break through your fears and achieve higher levels of creativity and writing excellence. ? Sell to 17 key writing markets Learn how to make money in every profitable writing area. ? Create your strategic marketing plan Design the master plan for your writing career. Learn what you need know to successfully write and sell novels, nonfiction books, children’s books, technical manuals, magazine and newspaper articles and columns, business copy, speeches, humor, scripts for movies, TV, radio, stage, and interactive media, and more. Learn about setting up your writing business, getting off to a fast and profitable start, turning writing blocks into stepping stones, staying focused with a master plan and weekly action plans, writing great query letters, getting writing assignments and more. |
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The Freelance Writer’s E-Publishing Guidebook: 25+ E-Publishing Home-Based Online Writing and Video Digital Media Businesses to Start For $36.95 25+ home-based online cyber businesses to start and run for freelance writers and other creative visionaries in electronic publishing and the digital media. The Freelance Writer’s E-Publishing Guidebook is a handbook of writing skills for e-publishing and the digital media. This book is about creating 25+ home-based online writing, producing, or information disseminating businesses for freelance writers, editors, and those who serve them in the information industry. The book targets the digital media and electronic publishing industries as well as details more than 25 different businesses for freelance writers who enjoy working online and at home. It’s useful also as a textbook for teachers of writing courses and for career development in the writing and publishing industry. For those who are not writers, the more than 25 businesses detailed in how to start and run them apply to any type of entrepreneur who finds an interest in opening a business using a digital video camera or information packaging and disseminating skills. Many of the careers focus on writing as well as the use of digital video or CD-ROM, DVD, and other methods of electronic publishing or communication as another possibility for freelancers, especially writers, producers, and other creative people to jumpstart their careers. |
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The Freelance Writer’s Handbook: How to Turn Your Writing Skills into a Successful Business $130.92 The Freelance Writer’s Handbook is the essential book for everyone who dreams of making money from their writing. It will appeal to all aspiring writers, whether they want to write as a full time profession, or simply to supplement their existing income. This inspiring guide will also benefit professional writers and journalists who want ideas on how to find new markets for their work. Packed with advice on ghostwriting, travel writing, fiction, short stories, television and radio scripts, newspaper, and magazine journalism, it will help you to decide what to write and how to sell it. It also includes valuable information on agents, making contacts, interviewing skills, potential markets, and how to get commissioned, and covers the latest developments in web writing, blogging, and online publishing. |
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The Rover Boys in Business or The Search for the Missing Bonds $0.99 According to Wikipedia: “Edward Stratemeyer (October 4, 1862-May 10, 1930). Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, he was an American publisher and writer of books for children. He wrote 150 books himself, and created the most famous of the series books for juveniles, including the Rover Boys (1899 and after), Bobbsey Twins (1904), Tom Swift (1910), Hardy Boys (1927), and Nancy Drew (1930) series, among others… In 1893, Stratemeyer was hired by the popular dime novel author Gilbert Patten to write for the Street & Smith publication Good News.[1] Stratemeyer pioneered the technique of producing long-running, consistent series of books using a team of freelance authors to write standardized novels, which were published under a pen name owned by his company. Through his Stratemeyer Syndicate, founded in 1906, Stratemeyer produced short plot summaries for the novels in each series, which he sent to other writers who completed the story, writing a specified number of pages and chapters. Each book would begin with an introduction of the characters and would be interrupted for a quick recap of all the previous books in the series.” |
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The Unofficial Guide to Building Your Business in the Second Life Virtual World: Marketing and Selling Your Product, Services, and Brand In-World $24.95 One of the hottest trends in pop culture, Second Life®, is a virtual, 3-D “world” that exists on the Internet. Populated by tens of millions of users, Second Life® is an opportunity to network with others, buy and sell products and services using real currency, and advertise your brand in a thriving, receptive environment. A comprehensive, in-depth guide to conducting business in this new marketplace, The Unofficial Guide to Building Your Business in the Second Life® Virtual World will ensure you make best use of the site. With relevant examples—from IBM creating a collaborative virtual workspace, to start-up companies selling virtual goods, to Princeton University offering Second Life® classrooms —you’ll learn how to use Second Life® to: formulate a successful business plan ´ create and maintain a virtual world presence for yourself and your business ´ generate buzz through promotions and advertisements ´ sell your products and services to a new realm of customers ´ expand relationships with colleagues and clients ´ understand Netiquette and codes of conduct for doing business in the virtual world ´ conduct meetings, conferences, and training seminars in Second Life® Filled with proven tips and techniques, this is the one book that reveals the best ways to make money using the hottest space online. Sue Martin Mahar is a respected resident of Second Life® and a freelance writer. Jay Mahar is an innovative technology expert with valuable skills in 3-D building and design, marketing, social networking, web infrastructure, and project management. Jay is often the person people turn to for business building advice in both real life and Second Life®. Jay and Sue Mahar live in West Orange, New Jersey. Advance Praise for The Unofficial Guide to Building Your Business in the Second Life® Virtual World: “The Mahars have written a |
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The Well-Fed Writer $19.95 Detailed, step-by-step how-to guide to help readers start their own lucrative freelance commercial writing business: writing for companies, and for hourly rates of $50-125+. |
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The Writer’s Guide to Corporate Communications $2.03 This reference contains everything the freelance writer needs to succeed in the lucrative field of corporate communications. This book is a complete guide to the techniques and creative skills needed for success. Coverage includes: how to write for videos, speeches, sales meetings, brochures, Web sites, and more; how to think creatively and strategically; how to find clients, market skills and develop a portfolio; and how to negotiate and set fees. Included are treatments and scripts, as well as exercises which provide the writer with a sample portfolio to help land assignments. An incredible source book for anyone who”s working to build a career or a business in corporate communications. As someone who”s been on both sides of the desk, I feel that Morenodelivers one of the fines how-to books on the subject. –Mary Lou Quinlan, CEO and President, N.W. Ayer & Partners. |
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Voice from the Gutter $9.99 Living a desperate, lonely life in Nashville, a reclusive, alcoholic writer seeks comfort and company from massage-parlor prostitutes and other down-and-out types he meets in Music City’s “underground world.” When he encounters a massage-parlor girl who shares her tragic life story, he begins to develop an obsessive attachment to the young woman. Just then, he receives word his father is dying and that his return to New England will reunite him with the wild, mysterious sister who’d abandoned the family years before. As he struggles to cope with the twin trauma of his father’s death and his mysterious sister’s reemergence into his life, the young man resolves to share his deep feelings with the prostitute in Nashville, and to save her from her desperate, tragic existence. Or will she save him? Author Biography: David Carew was a candidate for the U.S. Congress in 2000. A novelist, poet, songwriter, and freelance journalist, David for two years wrote the popular “Small Business” column for the Nashville weekly In Review, and also has published feature articles in Bookstore Journal, Business Nashville magazine, and Inside Music. Before moving to Nashville from New England in the early 1980s, he published two short stories and three poems in the New England magazine Bitter Sweet. He is employed as a direct-mail copywriter and publicist at a publishing house in the Nashville area. |
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eBay to the Max: Own a Trading Post, Be a Trading Assistant & Powerseller $1.01 From the Publisher: Take your eBay selling to the next level. If you are hungry for the tips, techniques, best practices and resources necessary to run a high volume online auction business, eBay to the Max: Be a Trading Post Owner, Trading Assitant & PowerSeller will give you the information necessary to move to the next level of selling. Working your way towards PowerSeller status? Find out how to get there faster. Already a PowerSeller? Learn how, why and when to become a Trading Assistant. Ready to move on to running other people’s auctions? Find out what it takes to become the owner of a retail Trading Post. This book will show you the technical, management and marketing skills it takes to professionally grow your business to the level you desire. You’ll learn about: Hiring, training and managing employees. Real estate, local regulations, insurance and other issues that come with opening a retail storefront. Obtaining co-op advertising funds, discounts, and VIP tech support. All other aspects of running a successful eBay business, such as packing, shipping, and problem resolution. This insider’s view of running an eBay Trading Post and other types of eBay businesses is not available anywhere else. Get the edge on the competition with eBay to the Max: Be a Trading Post Owner, Trading Assitant & PowerSeller. About the Author: Ron Mansfield is a computer consultant, instructor, and freelance writer. Recently he joined the team at www.i-soldit.com to help roll out the premier eBay drop store franchise network with more 100 stores open and 400 under contract. In his spare time he enjoys collecting, restoring, buying, and selling collectible electronics from the fifties and sixties. He has achieved PowerSeller status, runs an eBay Store, and an active online community for enthusiasts of mid-century electronics. His best-selling, award winning books have been published by Que and others in e |