Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone As a Writer

Kristen King

www.inkthinkerblog.com

Over at WritingSpark, Alicia shares some great insight about querying publications whose mold she doesn’t quite fit. Here’s a taste:

…I’m wondering. Can a straight woman write for a lesbian magazine? Can a caucasian write for Ebony magazine? Can a man write for Cosmo? Or would these differences in the writer and the actual intended audience be too far out of margin?

Read the whole post.

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Advice From Query Challenge Participant Sheila Scarborough

Kristen King

www.inkthinkerblog.com

Tell your readers to roll with the unexpected — one newspaper only wanted travel articles within Texas when I thought that would be the LAST thing they’d want, one editor apologetically turned down a piece because she herself is planning to take and write about the same trip, one editor wanted my work refocused from an area road trip to a single town, and although I planned to just assist in the NASCAR work the editor is sending me to a race as their sole writer.

One editor wanted a short turnaround, so I said I’d have the article in by Feb 2nd (tomorrow!) then my son was home from school throwing up for two days and I lost all that work time. It’ll sure be a busy day today for me. :)

Just keep plugging….

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Interview With Kristen King at Urban Muse

Kristen King

www.inkthinkerblog.com

Check out querier extraordinaire Susan Johnston’s interview with yours truly at her Urban Muse blog. I might be just a teensy bit biased, but I think it’s a pretty good read. If nothing else, at least skim the part about the 2007 Inkthinker Query Challenge.

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Finalist in 2006 Writer’s Digest Best Writer’s Website Contest

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We Found Our Next House, But We Need Your Help!

Kristen King

www.inkthinkerblog.com

We’ve put an offer in on a house we really like. The only problem is that we can’t complete the purchase of our new home until we sell our townhouse. If you know anyone who might be interested in buying a beautiful, much-loved, low-maintenance end unit in an established townhome community in Fredericksburg, VA, would you please share the listing with them?

It’s 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, and smack dab in the middle between DC and Richmond. It’s the perfect first home (we’ve loved it!), and great for commuters and busy families because of its location and zero-maintenance yard.

Thanks so much for anything you can do to help spread the word.

Gratefully yours,

Kristen and Jesse King

(and Pickles, Isabel, and Zoe, who want a yard to play in)

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www.kristenkingfreelancing.com
Finalist in 2006 Writer’s Digest Best Writer’s Website Contest

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Contest Deadlines from Poets & Writers

Kristen King

www.inkthinkerblog.com

Poets & Writers has a list of more than 30 contests with deadlines falling between February 15 and March 15, 2007. That means you have two whole weeks to get something together for the earliest deadline, and a month and a half for the latest. Why not set a goal of entering just one contest, and see how it feels?

Read the list of contests here.

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Finalist in 2006 Writer’s Digest Best Writer’s Website Contest

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