The Renegade Writer Blog

The second edition of Kelly James-Enger’s fabulous book Ready, Aim, Specialize was just released by Marion Street press, publisher of The Renegade Writer and other writing books. Here’s the scoop:
When you develop a writing specialty, you set yourself apart from other freelancers, save time researching and writing articles and command higher fees for your work.
Contrary […]

We just wanted to remind everyone about our new Renegade Writer e-Books store, where we offer e-books about freelancing. The books available there so far are:
Editors Unleashed: Magazine editors growl about their writer peeves: For this e-book, Linda interviewed ten (anonymous) editors of national and trade magazines about what writers do that ticks them off. […]

Check it out! We just opened our Renegade Writer e-Books store, where we share important career information in e-book format. We did all the work—all you have to do is break out the PayPal! The books available there so far are:
Editors Unleashed: Magazine editors growl about their writer peeves: For this e-book, Linda interviewed ten […]

I wrote this article a few years ago as part of a book proposal that never flew; I hated to see it sitting on my hard drive unused and unloved, so I breathed new life into an old article by updating it for 2007. [lf]
A potential client asks for your card. What do you do?
A. […]

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 […]

Eric and I went to J.C. Penney the other day and they already had their Christmas trees and decorations up. Y’know, why not just leave the trees and garlands up all year ’round? That way on December 26, you’re already reminding people to start shopping for Christmas 2007.
But it did remind me that now is […]

I was excited to get a copy of Peter Bowerman’s The Well-Fed Self-Publisher (Fanove Publishing 2007) as Diana and I have been working all this past summer on an e-book where editors talk anonymously about their writer pet peeves. But little did I know this book would be chock full of information that even authors […]

One of the best business purchases I’ve ever made is — a postage scale. Yep, a plain, old-fashioned, mechanical postal scale.
No more sticking on extra postage “just to be sure,” no more running to the post office to make sure the clips your editor requested won’t arrive postage due. Just weigh, stamp, and send.
Staples has […]

I was happy with my iPrint black-and-white specials…until I saw the funkalicious cards from the U.K. company StreetCards. So when I started running out of my old cards, I ordered 500 of these beauties, which are full-color and laminated. You can choose the background color on the back of the card; I thought this orange […]