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January 8, 2007 is a day that will someday be celebrated as the most wonderful of all time, for two reasons:

My January 8 eight-week e-course on getting published in magazines will be the last one offered at $198 for the Premium version and $99 for the Basic (no e-mail support) version. After that I’ll be [...]

Victoria writes: “I have a pretty simple question - what do you guys recommend as the best book for info about writing a non-fiction book proposal? There are so many out there, it is hard to know which one to spend your money on and to use as a formal guide while constructing your proposal.”
Good [...]

Today Lifehacker linked to an article in the New York Times about e-mail sign-offs — you know, those words and phrases like “Sincerely” and “Best regards” that we use to close e-mail messages. The article suggested that “Best” is a brush-off. Many Lifehacker commenters feel that “Cheers” is cheesy. “xoxo” was deemed inappropriate.
I use “Cheers” [...]

A couple months ago, my writing buddy Beth sent me some cool tabbed folders from Punch Studio. I *love* them and looked around at local office supply stores for more, to no avail. This morning, I met my friend Deb for tea/hot chocolate (and contraband Dunkin’ Donuts!) and she gifted me with yet another set [...]

If you’re like us, you use e-mail to communicate with your editors 90% of the time. But it can be hard to know how to present a professional image when no one seems to agree on the rules for e-mail. Are smileys okay? How long should a sig line be? How quickly do you need [...]

Now that the year is winding down (is it almost December already?), you may be thinking of your writing goals for 2007. How about writing down your plans, goals, and dreams (”I will break into The New Yorker and win the powerball jackpot”) in the form of a business plan? Many freelancers think that business [...]

Here’s a call for submissions by the Chicken Soup people. Although I have co-authored two Chicken Soup books, I have nothing to do with these particular books, so I can’t answer any questions about them.
Good luck!
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Chicken Soup for the Soul presents a new series of gift books for the *Chocolate * Coffee * Tea * [...]

I just checked amazon.com tonight and they’ve finally got Query Letters That Rock in stock. The four to six week wait is over! :-)  [db]
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In our new book The Renegade Writer’s Query Letters That Rock, Diana and I included a fabulous query by writer Andy Meisler. Based on that query, Andy sold a profile of blues DJ Ann the Raven to the LA Times Magazine. The profile was recently published, and it’s amazing. You can read it here; you [...]

Tom Weede is the author of the soon-to-be-published The Entrepreneur Diet, which gives great advice on how time-strapped entrepreneurs (and freelancers!) can get fit, beat stress, and work better. (Believe it or not, research shows that people who exercise tend to be more productive at work.) [lf]
Can you tell us a little about your new [...]