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- From: jeffrey@cygnus.com (Jeffrey Osier)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: American Writers Institute - Dr. John McCollister
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 23:32:36 GMT
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- Has anyone heard much about or taken the class given by John
- McCollister? The ad in Writer's Digest reads:
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- QUESTION: Why do some freelance writers earn an extra $500 a week,
- while most get only rejections?
-
- ANSWER: Those who earn money not only know how to write, they also
- know how to SELL what they write.
-
- Discover the secrets of those who know how to make money by writing:
- - How to get published--within 7 days
- - How to analyze your markets
- - How to get paid many times for the same article
- - How to write a query that sells
- - How to write the kind of book proposal editors want
- - How to find a New York agent
- - How to sell your poetry for 5 dollars... a word
-
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- and it gives a little bio on John McCollister, who's written 12 books
- on flying and other topics (including the Christian Book of Why) and
- has marketed over 500 of his own articles to what appear to be decent
- publications (Sat Eve Post, Entrepreneur, others).
-
- What I want to know is, why does this gentleman's 2-hour seminar go
- for a measly 20 bucks? Has anyone out there taken it, and, if so,
- what did you think?
-
- (I'm going to the one in Vegas on Jan. 19, by the way.. he's in So.
- California for most of Jan/Feb/March and will be up in the Bay Area
- over the summer.)
-
- Jeffrey Osier
- Technical Writer, Cygnus Support
-