Product Description

An inspiring guide for everyone who would like to earn money from writing. Includes advice on: what to write and how to sell it; ghost writing, travel writing, fiction, television and radio scripts, newspaper and magazine journalism; making contacts, agents, and how to get commission; how to turn your writing skills into a business.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #245923 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

About the Author
Andrew Crofts has been a highly successful freelance writer for over 25 years. He is a full-time international ghostwriter of fiction and non-fiction, whose success include Sold by Zana Muhsen (over 3 million copies sold to date), Kathy and Me by Gillian Taylforth, Through Gypsy Eyes by Cathy Etchingham, My Guerilla Journey by Helen Attwater. In his own name he has written business and travel books and fiction. He has also worked as a journalist, speechwriter and script writer for television and video. Andrew lives in Sussex.

Customer Reviews

Inspiring
This is without a doubt the best book I have ever read on the subject of getting assignments as a freelance writer.

There's no padding or 'fluff' in here -- Mr Crofts' gets straight down to the nitty gritty of how to get work.

This isn't a book for people who want to learn how to write. It's a book for writers who want to make a decent living from their craft.

Highly recommended.

No rose tinted glasses here!
Like many people I have read libraries of guide books for would-be writers. This, undoubtedly, is one of the best. I read it cover to cover in a couple of hours and then went back the next day to learn some more.

Clearly expressed, in logically structured sections, this book will certainly guide you through the process of finding the right topics to write about, the right people to pitch them to and, most importantly, how to cope with the rejection while waiting for the really big break-through.

The good news is that if you read this book and follow the advice then you won't even notice the rejection slips - you'll be too busy working on the next article that you are going to sell!

One to read and keep, making sure you re-read it regularly.

Top-notch Nuts & Bolts Guide
If you want to get involved in the actual business of freelance writing there is no better guide on the market. Andrew Crofts is well known in the book trade as a ghost writer and it is seldom that he doesn't have a book in the best-seller lists, even if it doesn't have his name on it.
Unlike many books on writing, this book actually tells you how to write for a living and is not full of the normal obsequies to editors that usually plague books like these and reveal a definite bias to the amateur.
Not much use if you want to write a heart-felt labour-of-love novel, otherwise excellent.