{"id":606,"date":"2009-09-30T06:28:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T14:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/publishingblog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2009-09-30T06:28:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T14:28:16","slug":"resources-for-freelance-writers-and-authors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/publishingblog\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Resources For Freelance Writers and Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across some links you might find useful. You may be aware of some and others might be new. In fact, I may have shared some of these with you before. This makes a good case for spending time checking out my blog archives. There are interesting, useful, educational, entertaining tidbits in each and every one.<\/p>\n

If you have trouble coming up with something to write about, check out these two sites. Not only will you find potential and timely topics to write articles about, these sites can help you to promote your books. How? Find out what holidays (some traditional, some bizarre) are coming up and use some of them in your book promotion. For example, if your book features teachers, you\u2019ll want to promote it during National Educator\u2019s week. Let\u2019s say that your story focuses on a dog rescue facility, see if you can find holidays that relate to pets and use them to promote your book. Here are two links listing holidays in all categories: <\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.holidayinsights.com<\/a>
\n http:\/\/www.brownielocks.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Send your press releases to newspapers on these major lists:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.newspapers.com<\/a>
\n http:\/\/www.newspaperlinks.com<\/a>
\n http:\/\/www.thepaperboy.com<\/a><\/p>\n

There are hundreds\u2014maybe thousands\u2014of newsletters out there. Here\u2019s a couple of newsletter directories that might help in your promotional efforts:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.newsletteraccess.com<\/a>
\n http:\/\/www.ezinehub.com<\/a> <\/p>\n

Use these magazine databases (fee required) to locate appropriate publications for your articles whether you are a career freelancer or promoting a book.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.writersmarket.com<\/a>
\n http:\/\/www.woodenhorsepub.com<\/a> <\/p>\n

Send your book to libraries.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ala.org<\/a>
\n http:\/\/www.librarydirectory.com<\/a>
\n http:\/\/www.travelinlibrarian.info\/libdir<\/a> <\/p>\n

Would love to hear how these resources helped you out this week.<\/p>\n

And be sure to check out my website for tons of additional resources:
\n http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Join SPAWN for constant resources updates.
\n http:\/\/www.spawn.org<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across some links you might find useful. You may be aware of some and others might be new. In fact, I may have shared some of these with you before. This makes a good case for spending time checking out my blog archives. There are interesting, useful, educational, entertaining tidbits in each and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t