Get known as a writer and get published

(Cross-posted from Angela Booth’s Writing Blog.)

This week’s article in Fab Freelance Ezine (out tomorrow) is “Get Known as a Freelance Writer – Because People Buy From People They Know”. Editors, publishers and agents won’t buy your work if they don’t know you.

Now, this isn’t an elitist club. It doesn’t mean that to be able to sell your work you need to have gone to the right school, and the right college, and know all the right people.

When I started writing novels almost 30 years ago, I was about as unknown as you can get. I lived in Australia, knew no other writers, and certainly wasn’t known to anyone in publishing. But I “got known” with hard work – I sent out my novel proposals, and within a very short time – less than a year – I was very well known, and got a contract for a series of novels from a UK publisher.

So yes, if you want to get known as a writer, it’s who you know, and who knows you. But all it takes to get a known is a little bit of industry.

In 2006, you’ve got a million ways to get known, all based on the glorious Internet. I don’t care who you are, or where you live, you can get known, and get published. Read the article in tomorrow’s ezine. Subscribe here - it’s free.

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