Saturday 29 September 2018

Writing for foreign markets


I make a living writing for magazines and I do a lot of work for overseas publications, especially in America. I was once quizzed on how I found work in foreign markets, so I thought I'd share some of the answers here...

Wednesday 16 May 2018

Turning rejection into acceptance


I had a couple of articles rejected recently. That hasn't happened in a long while, and frankly, I wasn't very impressed because it took the editor 7 months to let me know, and the reason for one of them, was simply that he'd totally changed his mind about the brief. He wanted something completely different. Was a kill fee available? No. But if I wanted rewrite them both, taking into account his extensive criticisms, then he'd reconsider his position.