Cash in on Your Kids– my new e-book about parenting writing!

I’m so excited! Two of my writing colleagues–Kris Bordessa and Jeannette Moninger-- and I just released a great (if I may say so myself) e-book on how to get started writing for magazines about parenting and kids. It’s Cash in on Your Kids: Parenting Queries that Worked and you can check it out here.

Between the three of us, we write for some great, national newsstand publications– Parenting, Family Fun, Parents, Real Simple, Redbook, Better Homes and Gardens and many more. When we interview parents for articles for these cool magazines, they often ask how we got started doing this kind of writing, what it pays, etc. The real question behind their questions: “Could I maybe do this myself?” Kris, Jeannette and I say yes, you can! Unfortunately, we don’t have time to coach every potential parenting writer who approaches us, so Cash in on Your Kids is our answer.

Two great reasons to read this book: 1) In addition to covering the basics on how to get started as a freelance parenting writer, we include 16 of our actual proposals to big-name magazines–the real queries we sent to actual editors. We tell you why the story proposal was a hit and what we got paid (anywhere from $300 to $3,600). You can learn to write your own queries by reading and analyzing ours.  2) We share email formats for many of the major parenting publications–info you won’t have unless you’re already an established freelance writer.