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- From: bf455@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bonita Kale)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: American Writers Institute - Dr. John McCollister
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 11:56:25 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, jeffrey@cygnus.com (Jeffrey Osier) says:
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- >
- >Has anyone heard much about or taken the class given by John
- >McCollister? The ad in Writer's Digest reads:
- >------------------------------------------------------------------
- >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
- >
- >------------------------------------------------------------------
- >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
- >
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- I went to one of these, and it was about what I expected--some tips on this
- and that, plus (the main part) a sales pitch for his tapes and books.
- Since I didn't expect much, and didn't get much, I was satisfied enough. I
- regarded it as an afternoon out, and practice in driving somewhere without
- getting lost.
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- He's got a pretty good pitch, I guess, because a lot of people were
- shelling out a couple of hundred bucks apiece for the tapes, books, etc.
- (Habits of un-wealth protect me from -ever- spending that kind of money on
- impulse.) McCollister makes it sound like the stuff is wonderful, and
- claims that this is your only chance for this half-price offer, but
- (knowing that he was doing several sessions in the area over a couple of
- days), I figured I'd be able to walk into another session and not have my
- money rejected if I decided I wanted to buy. (I didn't, though.)
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- (The poetry for five dollars a word is greeting card verse. $25 or $50 for
- five or ten words equals five dollars a word.)
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- Bonita Kale
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