Author: Aly Chiman

Getting started in freelance writing is quite overwhelming. This article will guide you step by step to help you get your first piece published in a magazine. Choose the Magazine Choose a few magazines that you would like to be published in. The publication must pay. You can check out different magazine by doing some research. For example, if you want to write about parenting you would type in “parenting magazine” in your search engine.…

Freelancer writers fighting to break into magazine markets often ponder the age-old, chicken-or-the-egg dilemma of whether to submit a piece on spec or to write a query letter to editors. Let’s put that question to rest. Unless a magazine’s guidelines state otherwise, you query. Simple. But then you might wonder what makes for a good query letter – you know, a query letter that makes an editor read your submission, sit up straight, scratch his…