{"id":472,"date":"2007-12-17T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2007-12-17T07:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T12:49:00","slug":"tricks-of-the-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/12\/17\/tricks-of-the-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Tricks of the Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>My “Making It Pop: Translating Your Ideas for Trade” bloginar has come to a close, and I miss those gals already. In the spirit of cntinuing to share some of what goes on in the course here on GWP, here are some resources.<\/p>\n

Looking for a place to bone up on your nonfiction writing technique? Try these:
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Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism<\/a> – March 14-16, Boston
Associated Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference<\/a> – Jan 30-Feb 2, NYC
Mediabistro<\/a> – jobs, classes, community, and news for media professionals (they have excellent classes, are based on both coasts, and also offer courses online)<\/p>\n

Looking to find out who’s publishing what? Try:
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Publisher’s Lunch<\/a> – book publishing news (including news about which editors are buying which books and from which agents)<\/p>\n

Want to start reviewing books? You first need to know what books are currently in the pipeline and not yet released. Here’s where to go:<\/span>

Kirkus Reviews<\/a>
Publishers Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n

Remember that magazines need a 3-month lead time, so look for books that list their publication dates as being at least 3 months away. To pitch an editor, find their email address and send them 2-3 brief paragraphs proposing your review. Mediabistro offers great classes on writing pitch letters, writing features, writing reviews…pretty much everything. I took a class from them soon after I decided to pursue a popular writing career and will likely be teaching a 1-day intensive in 2008 on doing anthologies. Stay tuned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My “Making It Pop: Translating Your Ideas for Trade” bloginar has come to a close, and I miss those gals already. In the spirit of cntinuing to share some of what goes on in the course here on GWP, here are some resources. Looking for a place to bone up on your nonfiction writing technique? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21414,21941],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gwp-institute-2","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}