How to Start a Home-Based Writing
Business, 5th (Home-Based Business
Series) by Lucy V. Parker
All Writers Need This Book
A front-page byline in The New York Times! A People magazine cover
story! A travel assignment in Katmandu! Dream on. This is a book, says
author Lucy V. Parker, about commercial writing, business writing,
nonfiction writing. It is a book about obtaining practical, often unglamorous
assignments that can pay the bills. Sure, celebrity profiles and
investigative journalism can be thrilling, but so can paying the rent.
Besides, someone has to write all those newsletters, brochures, press
releases, speeches, instructional manuals, and articles for employee
magazines. With Parkers help, you can write a business plan, form a
business, market your services, learn what to charge (and how to collect
your due), and deal with taxes and contracts. Parker even tells you how to
cope with the loneliness inherent in running a solo venture. Hint: online
chat rooms are OK, but people breaks are better. With profiles of 10

successful professionals from a variety of specialties and a list of 60 key
assignments for home-based writers. --Jane Steinberg
Personal Review: How to Start a Home-Based Writing Business,
5th (Home-Based Business Series) by Lucy V. Parker
A previous edition of Lucy V. Parker's "How To Start A Home-Based
Writing Business" was recommended by the staff of Midwest Book Review
to anyone aspiring to earn a living through their writing as being "A
superbly presented, complete-in-one-volume manual. An invaluable user-
friendly, highly recommended 'how to' guide specifically for freelance
writers." Now in a newly updated and expanded seventh edition, that
original assessment has been further strengthened and justified. Featuring
a jargon-free, eminently practical, informed and informative text of
instruction, advice, and commentary, "How To Start A Home-Based Writing
Business" is enhanced with the inclusion of Business-Success
Worksheets, Prospect Information Forms, Estimate Forms, Job-Log and
Job-Control Forms, a Checklist of Key Client Types, Profiles of Success
Stories, Guidelines for Software Selection, Business Resources, and a
Source Directory making it a completely up-to-date instructional reference
that will prove enduringly valuable to anyone seeking to establish a career
writing be it with fiction, non-fiction, or any combination of the two
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