Jumpstart Your Writing Career and Snag Paying Assignments


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Think it’ll take forever to earn a great living as a writer? Think again. With Jumpstart Your Writing Career, you’ll discover how easy it is to: * Think like a successful writer, someone who has the mindset to earn the big bucks * Hone your writing skills until they’re razor sharp. Cut through the tsunami of “competition” * Tackle the most lucrative branch of writing. Don’t waste time on unprofitable projects * Discover secrets of fiction that will dazzle your readers and keep them coming back for more * Organize your nonfiction articles so you can easily recycle information for unlimited markets * Craft powerful queries and prospecting letters that give you an edge when decision-makers consider your proposal * Forget expensive ads, you can promote your writing business for little or no money If you want to be a freelance writer who’s tired of working for peanuts and wants to snag more lucrative assignments, this book’s for you. Beth Ann Erickson lives in Minnesota with her husband, child, and a slew of Filbert Publishing mascots. She’s written hundreds of articles for publications throughout the nation, owns a full service publishing company, crafts promo materials for information products, and generally loves the freelance life she began in ‘01. If you want to make your writing sparkle, help you market smart, then hit “repeat” to start the cycle again, subscribe to Writing Etc., her free e-mag. You’ll get the free e-booklet “Power Queries” when you subscribe. Surf to FilbertPublishing.com.




Over... 101 No Cost (And Low Cost) Techniques to Turbo Charge Your Freelance Income


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Earning a living wage as a freelance writer just got easier. With 101 Low Cost (and No Cost) Techniques to Turbo-Charge Your Freelance Income, you'll discover how easy it is to: * Draw clients to your door like a magnet * The one tiny, utterly simple activity you can do daily to create an incredible edge over your competition * How standard writing techniques can tank your income... And discover one easy technique that'll pull in an income * How to transform your articles into a sales force recruiting clients and customers * Avoid cold calling by plugging this technique into your sales funnel * A simple way to make guerrilla marketing a breeze, heck, now you can get paid to promote your own business * How to keep in touch with your customers/clients for pennies on the dollar Completely updated, if your goal is to turbo-charge your freelance income, draw clients and customers to your door, and enjoy your freelance lifestyle more than ever before, you absolutely, positively need to add this book to your arsenal.




Stuck


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What’s holding you back? Why don’t you pursue your dream? “Creative blocks don’t exist.” “Change your attitude.” “Just blast through your block.” “Practice gratitude and the universe will reward you with...” I heard it all, every trite band aid solution to my very complex, soul wrenching, creative block. Truth was (and is) a life changing medical challenge didn’t fill me with inspiration. It wasn’t necessarily a positive transformative experience, either. (At least at the time.) Instead, I found myself navigating a maze of emotions, experiences, and head scratching moments. With each new blow, with every new reality I faced, I found my creative block expanding until I realized I had a tangle of issues to unwind before I could resume my creative life. Perhaps you’re in the same boat. If you’ve found yourself, for one reason or another, with a dream, a higher purpose, a project you want to complete but you just can’t get started… this book’s for you. It’s for every dreamer, aspirerer, gentle soul who wants to achieve their life purpose, but can’t seem to get on the path to productivity. Filled with short chapters; my personal story, applications to your situation, as well as prompts to help you untangle your inability to get moving on your project, this book will equip you with everything you need to understand the story your block carries. You’ll also receive a unique set of tools in the Bonus Tool Chest found in the final section. My hope is that STUCK will give you everything you need to venture forth and create the life you know you were born to lead.




Write Attitude


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** Special Price for a limited-time only: 3 books for the price of 2! ** Three essential books to help inspire and jumpstart your writing career. Together in one especially-priced box set collection. If you have ever wondered how successful writers got there and how you can do the same. this collection is for you. The set includes: How They Did It: 25 bloggers, authors and writers share all their secrets about earning a living and how you can do it too Some of the country's most prominent freelancers and bloggers share their best advice, covering everything from jumpstarting your career, landing well-paid assignments, expanding beyond your comfort zone, avoiding scams, and much, much more. Get a special peek into the lives and work schedules of successful freelancers and see photos of their writing spaces. The 10 Habits of Successful Writers What do a New York Times bestselling novelist, a six-figure freelancer, and an award-winning indie have in common? A few very useful habits. Find out how to become highly productive so you can earn more, the common mistakes that are holding you back and the one thing every featured writer believes is key to success (Hint: It involves a chair) The $1,000 Query Letter Read real query letters that landed their authors dream assignments and contracts, including multiple-book deals with major publishers, magazine columns and more. Then learn what made those queries so amazing and how you can yours shine. keywords: writing and publishing, success stories, how they did it, make money writing, become a writer




Forthcoming Books


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Construction Management JumpStart


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Launch Your Construction Management Career—Quickly and Effectively Written by an experienced construction management specialist, Construction Management JumpStart provides all the core information you need, whether you're considering a new career or expanding your responsibilities: Understanding the functions of construction management Understanding the design and construction process Working with contracts documents Estimating project costs Administering contracts Managing the job site Creating and maintaining a project schedule Measuring project performance Controlling quality Ensuring project safety




Ask a Manager


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From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together




Backpacker


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Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.




The Silo Series Collection


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For the first time ever, The Silo Saga Omnibus brings together all of the work in Hugh Howey's ground-breaking, best-selling, acclaimed series, including the individual novels Wool, Shift, and Dust, as well as original essays by the author, and a bonus chapbook of short fiction, Silo Stories The remnants of humanity live underground in a vast silo. In this subterranean world, rules matter. Rules keep people alive. And no rule is more strictly enforced than to never speak of going outside. The punishment is exile and death. When the sheriff of the silo commits the ultimate sin, the most unlikely of heroes takes his place. Juliette, a mechanic from the down deep, who never met a machine she couldn’t fix nor a rule she wouldn’t break. What happens when a world built on rules is handed over to someone who sees no need for them? And what happens when a world broken to its core comes up against someone who won’t stop until things are set to right? Their world is about to fall. What—and who—will rise?




100 Side Hustles


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Best-selling author Chris Guillebeau presents a full-color ideabook featuring 100 stories of regular people launching successful side businesses that almost anyone can do. This unique guide features the startup stories of regular people launching side businesses that almost anyone can do: an urban tour guide, an artist inspired by maps, a travel site founder, an ice pop maker, a confetti photographer, a group of friends who sell hammocks to support local economies, and many more. In 100 Side Hustles, best-selling author of The $100 Startup Chris Guillebeau presents a colorful "idea book" filled with inspiration for your next big idea. Distilled from Guillebeau's popular Side Hustle School podcast, these case studies feature teachers, artists, coders, and even entire families who've found ways to create new sources of income. With insights, takeaways, and photography that reveals the human element behind the hustles, this playbook covers every important step of launching a side hustle, from identifying underserved markets to crafting unique products and services that spring from your passions. Soon you'll find yourself joining the ranks of these innovative entrepreneurs--making money on the side while living your best life.