Lee Jenna Tyler's List: Business Side of Writing

• analysis piece, and I can tell you from personal experience that those morph the deeper the reporter gets into the topic.
• To be a reporter is to constantly feel like you have your hands on a runaway train, and if you let go, you will be left so far behind so fast that you will never catch up
• Proquest

  • So glad to see she hit on many of the things I was nattering on about in my post. 
    See Proquest for research

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• share your Online Business Card with all of your contacts through Facebook and Twitter. We also recommend adding your Online Business Card link to your printed business cards to make sure your contacts have a way to learn more about your business.
• even share buttons and links to your social media pages i

• Yes. We provide an activity chart so you can see the number of times your Online Business Card has been viewed.

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• tiny artwork on a wall behind you main subject?
• have a model release printed,
• ompleted by the mode
• signed,
• witness,
• submit)
• ll detail
• icense plates are copyright.
• train numbers, ship numbers/names are copyright
• we still don't accept Porsches, Ferraris and Harley Davidsons, completely copyrighted and editorial only.
• Did you go to Ikea, the mall, or any other store? 
  - make sure you removed every little tag that can give you away 
  - barcodes are copyrighted 
  - check that you can sell commercial images taken inside the stores as some stores may have an issue with this, in which case you can only submit as editorial. 
   
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• ks of art, uniq
• but, if they are your main subject, it is better to get a property release.
• b) you will lose the actual subject of your image, which defeats the purpose 
  - if you can't obtain a r
• lease, the only place to submit an art work is the editorial section, provided it has such value
• Eiffel Tour (only at night),
• possible and probably rather expensive. 
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• always consider the editorial section for buildings protected by copyright
• if in doubt, you can send us an email and we will do our best to guide you
• on't forget to have fun
• protected or not.
• You can do a search on Google and see if the respe
• commerciall
• ditorially
• Images can be used to illustrate truthful articles in print and electronic newspapers/magazines/journals. Not to be used in commercial designs and/or advertisements

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• . We license copyright.
• world of publishing.
• ut I’ll be honest: we
• the new
• have benefitted from
• till traditionally published
• produce

• The books “spoil” and disappear out of shelves and out of people’s consciousness within a few months of publication. Readers forget the writer exists, and the publisher does not do any further promotion to goose sales of existing titles until a new title comes out.

   

  I italicized that last part because it’s very important. If there is no new title, the writer gets almost no attention from the publisher. If the writer gets no attention, the books get no attention, and sales flatline. They might flatline at a reasonable level, but still, they’ll be much lower than they would if a wr
• model.
• r kept to the usual pace of a book or two every year.
• On a writing business level, this is especially important for you writers who are
• raditionally published only.
• The hospital soon learned that it’s a real bad idea to piss-off a writer.
• Netflix
• September

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