A great How to Start guide
Easy to read and packed full of informative information. This is a good basic start to doing business online.
A mixed bag of advice and information quality
This wouldn't be the first book that I would recommend for reading by a beginning freelancer. The author presents all potential writing opportunities (e.g., magazine and corporate writing) with equal emphasis, and the result is an overwhelming set of ideas and worksheets that are more likely to confuse newbies than to help them. Particularly baffling to me was the author's choice of a model business plan, which is much more suitable for a large company than a one-person freelance business. I was also very surprised that the author did not discuss web sites as a critical part of a freelance writer's promotional efforts. Although commercial web sites may not have been important when the first edition of this book was published, they are essential today -- along with blogs and other forms of online marketing that also aren't covered in this book. And although some of the author's recommended resources are a bit dated, the book does contain topics, profiles, worksheets, and resource lists that aren't covered in other freelancing guides and that will be useful to writers who have some experience in working on their own.
A completely up-to-date instructional reference
A previous edition of Lucy V. Parker's "How To Start A Home-Based Writing Business" was recommended by the staff of Midwest Book Review to anyone aspiring to earn a living through their writing as being "A superbly presented, complete-in-one-volume manual. An invaluable user-friendly, highly recommended 'how to' guide specifically for freelance writers." Now in a newly updated and expanded seventh edition, that original assessment has been further strengthened and justified. Featuring a jargon-free, eminently practical, informed and informative text of instruction, advice, and commentary, "How To Start A Home-Based Writing Business" is enhanced with the inclusion of Business-Success Worksheets, Prospect Information Forms, Estimate Forms, Job-Log and Job-Control Forms, a Checklist of Key Client Types, Profiles of Success Stories, Guidelines for Software Selection, Business Resources, and a Source Directory making it a completely up-to-date instructional reference that will prove enduringly valuable to anyone seeking to establish a career writing be it with fiction, non-fiction, or any combination of the two
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