The Business of Writing – Volume 5

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What’s the best way to pitch to a podcast host? How can writers use BookTok to sell books? How can writers break into travel writing? What’s the best way to take card payments at author events? What do writers need to consider when drawing up their last will and testament? And how do we go about selling our books direct to readers? All these, and many more questions, are answered in this fifth collection of the Business of Writing Articles that first appeared in Writing Magazine between 2023 and 2025.

Contributors include: Nicola Chester, Matty Dalrymple, Benedict Brown, Julia Goodfellow-Smith, Glenda Young, AP Beswick, Annabelle McCormick, Steve Newman, Amy McPherson, Richard Franks, Deborah E Wilson, PR Ellis, Antony Johnston, Mel Wardle Woodend, Gary Carr, Emilie Lauren Jones, Alison May, Mark Leslie Lefebvre, Morgana Best, Belinda Kroll, Jeff Adams, Michele Lucchini, Raychelle Ayala, Christina Patterson, Dene Bebbington, Steve Roberts, Brian Price, Vicki Beeby, Sarah Webb, Darcy Pattison, Caroline Brannigan, Charlotte Peacock, Kathryn Holme, Shannon Hamilton, Michaela Burns, and Alfons Winklemann.

Contents Include:

  1. Writing the Landscape
  2. Pitching to Podcasts
  3. BookTok Business
  4. Consultants Calling
  5. Passport to Publication
  6. Plastic Payments
  7. Capturing Your Ideas
  8. The Performance Poet
  9. The Heir Affair
  10. Retreating to Write
  11. The Relaxed Writer
  12. Selling Direct
  13. Access All Areas
  14. Business Banking
  15. AI Narration
  16. The Evolving Writing Business
  17. Finding Your Way As A Freelancer
  18. Pitching to Conferences
  19. Kiddy Commerce
  20. Ghosting Around
  21. Self-Publishing Success
  22. Translation Transactions
  23. Know Your Rights
  24. Hobby? Or Business?
  25. Back Up Your Business