Category Archives: E-books

My Web Writer’s Guide E-book to Retire Next Month

By on October 12th, 2012

As I mentioned previously, I am discontinuing my Web Writer’s Guide e-book. There are a few reasons for this. Why I’m Retiring the Web Writer’s Guide The focus on Web writers was too limiting, especially given that most information in the e-book could apply equally well to other freelancers. The Web Writer’s Guide brand was supposed to result in a series of e-books. Instead there were only two — this one and a workbook-only version of this one (which will also be discontinued). Moving forward we will still have a series of e-books. But they will be published under The Query-Free Freelancer brand to tie into …

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Cyber Monday Sale! 50% Off E-books for Freelance Writers

By on November 28th, 2011

I hope everyone celebrating Thanksgiving last week had a wonderful one. And I hope those who ventured out on Black Friday scored some serious deals. As you probably know, it’s now Cyber Monday — the day great deals are supposed to come to the Web before the holidays. And today I have a great deal for you! For today only, you can save a whopping 50% on both of my current e-books for freelance writers. That includes: The 30 Day Marketing Boot Camp for Freelance Writers (regularly $9.97) — Now just $4.97! The Web Writer’s Guide to Launching a Successful …

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Building New Income Streams When Client Work is Slow

By on October 16th, 2011

This article is a part of a five post series for Demand Media Studios writers and others interested in leaving content mills and other low paying freelance writing jobs behind.  We’ve already looked at why freelance job boards aren’t the best places to find gigs and how you can make it easier for clients to find you through your writer platform. But what can you do in between client projects, as you wait for responses to your pitches or while you’re still growing your platform? You can build additional non-client income streams (and some of these are actually a part of your writer …

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Interested in E-book Pricing? Join the Conversation

By on March 18th, 2011

While I work on some server maintenance and moving a few other sites today, I wanted to leave you with a post from my new indie publishing blog. You know that I’m a big fan of e-books as a residual income stream for freelance writers. And you probably know that e-book pricing can be a hot button issue, especially since Amazon jumped in and seemingly took over e-books in the public’s minds. You may have also noticed the obscenely low prices some e-book authors charge, as though that’s the way e-book should be (with no regard for the fact that …

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Are You an Indie Publisher? Join Me at the New AllIndiePublishing.com!

By on March 1st, 2011

Well, it’s official. It’s launch day! My new indie publishing blog — and sister site to All Freelance Writing — is up and running at AllIndiePublishing.com. If you’re an indie book publisher or indie e-book publisher, or interested in becoming one, I hope you’ll check it out. A lot of new content will go up this week. Some will be brand spanking new. Other posts are being moved from this blog to a permanent home on the new indie publishing blog (generally posts that came from AllBookMarketing.com or AllBookWriting.com previously but were housed here after the big site merge a …

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Potential E-book Download Problems

By on February 7th, 2011

Just a heads up. Two customers had problems downloading my Web Writer’s Guide e-book over the weekend. Normally download problems are simple user errors (like clicking “open” instead of “save” so the .zip is never saved so they can extract the files). But to have two people claim there were download link problems so close together, I’m concerned it might be a problem on the delivery service’s end. I’ve emailed E-junkie to see if they had any widespread problems over the weekend, and if so whether or not they’ve been fixed. I wasn’t personally able to replicate the issue however …

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PDF Engines and Copyright Infringement: How to Stop Them

By on January 21st, 2011

There’s a not-so-new copyright infringement threat that seems to be becoming even more prevalent these days — so-called PDF search engines. In the last two weeks alone I received notification that three of these sites were publishing my content without a license or permission. What’s happening? Well, these sites purport to be about helping you find .pdf files. First of all that often means they’re hotlinking files (linking directly to the download and not to the download page on the publisher’s site, which is often against the terms of use). But the bigger problem is that some of these sites …

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5 Ways to Turn Your Freelance Writing Services Into Products

By on January 18th, 2011

When you work as a freelance writer, you’re a service provider. Selling products is technically something different. But that doesn’t mean you can’t incorporate other income streams into your business. Sure, you can remain a freelance purist if you really want to. But if you’re looking for new ways to make money with your writing without having to be too reliant on client projects, why not turn your writing services into products you can sell? Need some ideas on how you can get started? Here are five examples of ways you can use your freelance writing skills and knowledge in …

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Follow Me on Twitter and Get Special Savings

By on January 17th, 2011

Just a quick note to let you know that if you follow me on Twitter you can get a special discount code on my recently released 30 Day Marketing Boot Camp for Freelance Writers! This discount is the first of many that will be offered to Twitter followers on products I release. So if you want to save some money, follow me at @QueryFreeWriter. Other discounts will follow in coming weeks and months and they won’t all be mentioned here. For this discount you can save almost 30% on my latest e-book, getting it for just $7 (normally $9.97). But …

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Recovering from Poorly Received Material

By on December 30th, 2010

I like to think I create good comedy on a consistent basis. But sometimes I write a stinker, something so dreadful that I cringe whenever I think about it. One example is an article I wrote for another website where I criticized photos in a ranting, raving style. Commentors hated it. It’s feedback I won’t forget any time soon. Confronting the impact of your work is something all cretive minds have to deal with. This is especially true in comedy. A badly framed joke gets you blank expressions if you’re lucky…or gets you cussed out nine ways to Sunday. Standup …

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