Do you want to learn how to get your articles in print and online magazines?

• Maybe you want to be a writer, but you don’t know where to begin.

• Perhaps you’re a small business owner, and you want to brand yourself an expert in your niche.

• Or maybe you’re a creative soul who wants a fun way to earn a little extra money.

You’re not alone. I was in your position six years ago. I wanted to write. I’d just given up on my career as an archaeologist, and writing seemed like the most obvious choice for a backup. I knew I had the determination and skill to succeed, but I didn’t know where to begin.

I wanted to get paid to write, but I didn’t even know if this was possible, let alone how to get that first paycheck.

Now, I’ve had over 300 articles published in print and online magazines, including internationally-syndicated magazines with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. I’ve got writing clients in every corner of the globe. I’ve interviewed some of my heroes and learned from the best and brightest. I’ve endured all-nighters to meet deadlines and slogged through articles while I should really be getting the dinner on.

I’ve gone from a hobby writer to supporting my family through my writing. Even with the economy in tatters and publications downsizing left, right and centre, I’m still earning money and landing high-paying gigs. And I want to help you achieve the same writing success.

Writing transformed my life, and I’m willing to bet it will transform yours too.

So, do you want to:

• Publish craft articles and tutorials to promote your etsy shop?
• Write about what you love and want to earn money from your hobby?
• Build a platform to launch your business to the world?
• Create a unique brand that’s recognised within your niche?
• Gain a publishing deal and market your book successfully?
• Write with abandon, passion and joy?

Then you should check out my new guide – the Small & Awesome Guide to Freelance Writing.

In The Small & Awesome Guide to Freelance Writing, you’ll learn:

• A SEVEN-STEP method for Freelance Success. It’s easy to remember and implement, and works whatever industry you’re in.

• The SINGLE BIGGEST reason people fail as freelance writers, and how to avoid it.

• 50 writing prompts to get your creative juices flowing

• A step-by-step guide to conducting article research.

• Tips on how to create a market database.

• A handy query checklist to make sure you include all the information the editor needs.

• A breakdown of the copyright process for writers, including which rights to sell and which to keep.

• The ONE thing you must do before sending off an article. Not doing this thing is the difference between selling and not selling your writing.

• The TWO aspects of freelance writing that other courses WON’T tell you about. Knowing these will help you earn more.

• Plus Four Query Letter samples from my own collection.

The Small & Awesome Guide to Freelance Writing doesn’t contain a list of writing “secrets” – it simply explains what I’ve done to make my writing career successful, and gives you easy-to-follow, actionable steps to do the same things. I also tell you what other people have done, and why that’s successful, and show you how to do those things, too.

I show you lots of different techniques, and give you the tools to implement and test them to figure out what works best for you. There’s no “one-size-fits-all” solution that works for every writer or business – no secret success formula that will get you those writing jobs every time, guaranteed. And if someone is trying to tell you there is, you have my permission to kick them in the shins.

With every section of the ebook, you’ll receive a list of activities to test your writing skills and set you up as a grymm & epic freelance writer.

Plus, there’s a FREE Bonus Guide

Because I love surprises, I include a FREE PDF of BONUS material with every copy of the Small & Awesome Guide to Freelance Writing. I don’t tell you what’s in this PDF, because that spoils the surprise, but I will tell you the free PDF contains over 25 resources that will help you get started writing for magazines.

I’m excited to share all my knowledge and tips with you, and I want to read the fantastic blogs you write. So what are you waiting for? It’s time to start blogging!

The Small & Awesome Guide to Freelance Writing is only US$11, or NZ$13 for New Zealand customers.

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Why Small & Awesome?

My first ebook, the Grymm & Epic Guide to Blogging, was rather epic. This guide is Small & Awesome. Here’s why:

It’s SMALL because I wanted to give you a shorter guide to get you started on your writing journey. This way, you can focus on getting your first paid assignment without feeling overwhelmed by how much there still is to learn.

It’s AWESOME because I believe in giving you a valuable resource you can return to again and again, so I’ve packed this guide with more than 60 pages of tips, tricks and resources to help you land that paid writing gig. I don’t make anything up or steal it from someone else – all this advice is based on my own experiences as a paid freelance writer.

But What if The Small & Awesome Guide to Freelance Writing sucks?

I’m pretty sure it doesn’t, but I’m assurred suckage is subjective, so you might well read the whole thing and decide it was a complete waste of money. That’s cool. I’m not gonna hold it against you.

I stand behind my products, sucky or not, so if you’re not satisfied with the Small & Awesome Guide to Freelance Writing, I will give you a full refund. Every cent. And this guarantee lasts a lifetime. You can email me in ten years time and say “Hey Steff, I just realised, your guide is hopeless.” and I will give your money back, even if I’m a hobo and sleeping in a bucket. Although, if I’m sleeping in a bucket, I’m not sure how I’ve managed to access my email, but maybe by that time, it’s directly downloaded into my brain.

So, yeah. Lifetime guarantee. You can’t lose.

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PS. There is some kind of “bloggers rule book” out there that says I need to add a PS. I wouldn’t do it, just to rock the system, but the truth is, I rather like PS’s – they’re like that extra bit of the movie that plays after the credits, but no one else sees it because they’ve all left, but I’m still looking for my shoe and my husband is tapping his food impatiently and then … yay! All the characters are eating pie. So I would just like to add that, unlike most ebooks about freelancing, the Small & Awesome Guide to Freelance Writing has a picture of Cthulhu on the cover. If you need a more compelling reason to buy it than that, I can’t help you.

Any questions or comments, just contact me and I’ll talk you through.

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Sincerely
Steff

For years I’ve been an advocate of a regular posting schedule for your blog. I reckon if you set a goal to write a post every day, or every week, and you work hard to stick with it, you become a better blogger. Because you’re forcing yourself to practice everyday – in the same way a guitarist noodles away every night no matter how shite his day at work was or how much he’d rather finish that George R. R. Martin book – you’re going to get better. Right?

Not necessarily. Sometimes you just get pissed off.

Sometimes you don’t have anything to write about. Sometimes you’re terrified of facing that blank page again. Sometimes you think, “Goddammit, if I have to write ANOTHER word about death metal/weddings/cat pictures/personal finances/zombies/tofu recipes/chicken coops today, I am going to stick that chicken coop so far up the universe’s backside it will be raining chickens in Russia.”

How many blogs do you actually read? I mean, really read? Not just add to your reader, skim the titles and think “oh, that sounds mildly interesting, I’ll come back to that”, and never do. How many writers are so awesome they create something new every day or every week that you have to devour, word by glorious word? How many?

Read On…

When I was starting out on my mission to conquer the Internet world via Grymm & Epic, Ali of Aliventures was one of the first people to support this project. That’s how I first found her site and I’ve been learning and loving it ever since.

Ali is a lovely, kind and easy-going writer who started off making a full-time income writing paid blogs for sites like Daily Writing Tips. She now coaches writers, writes and sells ebooks on writing (including the awesome Bloggers’ Guide to Freelancing), creates amazing writing e-courses, and is about to self-publish her first novel about what happens when the world of Geekdom becomes very, very real.

General

Firstly, we just want to know who you are, and what you do. Can you share your journey from mini-Ali to Aliventures?

Sure! As a teenager, I knew I wanted to be a writer. I worked on a really bad sci-fi novel in my mid-teens, holing up in the school library in my lunch-hours. (I wasn’t the most sociable of kids…)

Read On…

This is a guest post by the fabulous Ali of Aliventures, who makes me feel super awesome because I’m not the only one who listens to Turisas while writing non-fiction.

Do musicians have to tidy the entire house before they can face playing a note?

Do painters stare in dismay at the blank canvas for an hour before making the first pencil mark?

I don’t actually know; my creativity has never lent itself to music or painting. But writers certainly seem particularly likely to get stuck before they’ve even started. I’ve never spoken to a writer who always – or even regularly – sat down and started writing without any feelings of resistance.

There’s a couple of major reasons why.

Read On…