Magazine Writing from the Boonies

By Louise Donnelly and Mark Zuehlke

No matter where you live, this book explains everything you need to know to break into the challenging and profitable magazine market. In this accessible, informative guide, two experienced freelancers, Mark Zuehlke and Louise Donnelly, explain the basics of writing non-fiction magazine articles. Mark Zuehlke has published more than 100 articles in magazines since 1981 and has taught several magazine-writing courses. He produces a continuing education magazine, and has appeared in Canadian Business, The Financial Post, Profit, Canada and the World and Canadian. Louise Donnelly began writing from rural B.C. in 1987, and founded her one-day workshop "Magazine Writing From the Boonies" in 1989. She has appeared in such magazines as The Financial Post, Moneywise Magazine and Canadian among others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0886291852
• ISBN13: 9780886291853
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Boonies Are Us

As a writer and aspiring writer, I've read them all, but never have I encountered such a complete, no-nonsense, nuts-and-bolts guide to magazine writing. If you have it in your library, I really don't think you need another. It's all here, and very practical--with the added bonus of getting two writer's thoughts for the price of one. If you have any hope of selling professionally, you'll find all the tools you need inside. It's also very Canadian, great for us, not quite so great for U.S. folk. The techniques, however, are sound for anyone, anywhere.

One of the best guides to freelance writing

Zuehlke and Donnelly have put together a book which tells readers how to be successful as freelance writers. Full of illustrative ancedotes and practical tips, this book lets you believe you can write well and sell well too. The "boonies" refers to any area outside of a major publishing centre. Soemtimes it feels like knocking on doors is all you will do as a freelancer. Zuehlke and Donnelly show you how to get those doors to open.