A young author’s created a million-dollar career writing Twilight-like ebooks, the gloss has come off the content farms, discover how you can create a profitable writing business, and much more.
Here’s what happened on the blogs this week…
Article Marketing: Changes At Ezine Articles — Will They Affect You?
If you’re writing articles for clients who are involved in article marketing, you need to be aware of how those changes are affecting Ezine Articles.
Get out ahead of this coming storm, to ensure that you keep your clients, and increase your income.
Web Content: Fear and Loathing as (Some) Websites Get Hammered
Major content sites have seen huge drops in traffic. Less traffic means less income, and this affects the way they treat writers. If you’re writing for a major content site, there’s stormy weather ahead.
Successful Freelancing: How Did You Start? Share Your Story
Where and how did you begin your writing career? Share your story — even if it’s the story of your very first sale.
Content Farm Frenzy: On One Site, Writers’ Payments Are Still a Joke
I’ve been covering the brouhaha over content farms on the blog. The silver lining seemed to be that since sites would need quality content, they’d be willing to pay writers more.
Well… no. It seems that “more” is extremely relative, judging from the princely sums one site intends paying. (Heavy sarcasm.)
Your Writing Business Mindset (New Series)
Have you dreamed of setting up your own writing business?
This new series, “Your Writing Dream: Set Up Your Own Highly Profitable Writing Business”, on our freelance writing blog will help.
If you’re facing challenges, leave a comment on the post, and tell me what they are, so that I can cover them in the series.
Millionaire Self-Published Young Adult Author Sells Half a Million Books
Here’s the story of how one young, self-published ebook author became a millionaire very quickly, selling her young adult novels.
Rejected by New York publishers, she took her writing career into her own hands. Can you do this? You’ve got the tools she has — go for it. :-)
Best Writing Advice: Write Every Day
Want to be a successful writer? There’s just one piece of advice you need: write! Discover author Philip Pullman’s best advice for writers in this post.
Success Strategy: Overcome Your Fear of Making Mistakes
Are you nervous about making mistakes? Most of the mistakes we make aren’t fatal. Indeed, making a mistake can be a good thing, especially if you know what to do.
New Rules for Writers: Are You Paying Attention?
The operative word here is “attention.” A tsunami of information is created every day. As a writer, you’re competing for attention not only from prospective clients, but also, once you get hired, your words are competing for attention with everything and everyone.
Scary? Yes.
Competent Writers Are Hard to Find: the Competition Is in Your Head
You’re a writer. If you think you have competition, it’s in your head. Discover why that’s so, and what you can do about it.
Publicity Is Powerful: Make Money for Your Clients -- and Yourself

Why should YOU learn how to write press releases?
One word: money.
Once you learn how press release campaigns work, you can create simple campaigns for your clients. You can feel quite comfortable charging anywhere from $3,000 to $7,000 per campaign.
This is a drop in the bucket to businesses, which are used to paying at least 10 per cent of their net for advertising.
Writing publicity is a form of copywriting, and YOU can do it -- even as a relatively new writer. I'll show you how.