How to Start and Run a Writing Editing Business

Herman Holtz, a highly successful freelance writer, shows how anyone with basic writing ability can set up a full- or part-time writing business. Holtz's focus is not on the most highly competitive segments of the writing business--general fiction and nonfiction--but the burgeoning, less competitive market for writing services in business, industry, the government, and nonprofit organizations. You'll learn how to seek out and target clients; match your particular writing style and skills with the most appropriate markets; market and sell a wide variety of writing products--brochures, manuals, catalogs, newsletters; and use the latest desktop publishing and word processing techniques to produce the most attractive products.How to Start and Run a Writing and Editing Business is the perfect prescription for writers seeking to boost their income and make a living from their word crafting skills. And in the category of self-supporting writers Herman Holtz knows whereof he speaks. For over twenty years he has been writing for profit: both as a freelance author to many organizations and as the author of many books in the field of consulting. There has never been a better time--or a greater set of markets--for anyone with writing skills and the desire to put them to work. How to Start and Run a Writing and Editing Business is your basic guidebook to making this entrepreneurial dream a reality.