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The Freelancer's Rulebook: A Guide to Understanding, Working With and Winning Over Editors (Story Line Press Writer's Guides)
Published in Paperback by Story Line Press (May, 2002)
Author: Bonnie Hearn Hill
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Some guidebooks for freelance writers mindlessly replay rules that no longer apply. Others are exhaustive ... and exhausting. The (Expanded) Freelancer's Rulebook is, thankfully, neither of the above. Written by Bonnie Hearn Hill, a longtime editor (for the Fresno Bee) and freelance writer, the Rulebook is practical, down-to-earth, and short but not slight. "This is not a book about how to write," says Hearn Hill. "It's a book about how to sell." Her approach is to show freelancers how to think like editors. While her rules are straightforward--have original ideas, be reliable, provide clean copy, don't use squirrel stickers on your query letters--it is remarkable, really, how few freelancers follow them. Send your query or manuscript to "a real, live human," advises Hearn Hill, who counsels that the slush pile is "as cold, unappealing and unproductive as it sounds." Supply heads and subheads in the style of the publication. "Force yourself to cut everything that doesn't contribute to the overall focus of the piece." And as for multiple submissions? Go for it. "The editor who acts fastest wins," says Hearn Hill. "What is so horrible about that?" --Jane Steinberg
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A book for freelancers from a freelancer and editor
This is a freelancer's book written by a former freelancer now editor. As such you get an insider's view on what is needed to be a successful freelancer. There aren't a lot of hints for improving your writing or picking subjects or any thing like that. The author assumes either you have the necessary ability and talent needed or you'll learn soon enough that you don't. Instead the focus is more on what to do to get in the door and stay inside. That is getting the attention of the editor and once you do get it how to keep it. I'll give you the main tip in two sentences. Do good work. Write what the editor asks for, write it well and write it on time. The author goes into more detail and explains more of how to do it. Not a bad investment if you're looking to get into freelancing. I give it a B+ on the StuPage Reviews.

"Wish This Book Had Been Available Twenty Years Ago"
Highly successful author Bonnie Hearn Hill begins this book with an important distinction: "The process of creation, exhilarating as it can be, is distinctly separate from the process of publication." In this easily readable guidebook, Hill offers specific tips about the creative side of writing. However, she focuses most of her attention on "the business of writing."

Readers will respond favorably to Hill's mission: To save other talented writers from the mistakes she made early in her career when she pitched her materials to publishers. You will welcome her candor. She admits her early blunders, and tells us how to avoid them. Enriching her readability, her keen sense of humor surfaces and resurfaces throughout the book.

At the end of each chapter, she lists rules writers should follow to become consistently paid writers. Concluding the book, she repeats the rules-all 112 of them.

Her advice covers: proper letterheads, query letters, how to follow up with the editor who has held your article too long, using the Internet judiciously, and much more that relates to getting the free out of freelance.

Good news: Knowing that she has excelled as a nonconformist at times, she encourages readers to exercise poetic license with her proposed rules. After all, "None of this means you have to write a paint-by-number piece." One of her views as an iconoclast: Query letters may just delay a decision, rather than speeding up the decision by sending the manuscript itself.

Had I bought this book two decades ago, my submissions to editors would have generated a much greater percentage of paid acceptances. I recommend The (Expanded) Freelancer's Rulebook enthusiastically.

GREAT writers' resource!
If you are a writer that wishes to get your work published but need a tool to help show you how---this book is for you! Every writer should have this in their library. The author, Bonnie Hearn Hill, makes points in the book that are VERY important to a freelance writer. Well written, easy to read--I couldn't put the book down!


The Assembly Line
Published in Paperback by Univ. of Massachusetts Press (October, 1981)
Authors: Robert. Linhart and Margaret Crosland
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"l'etabli"
"DE CADENAS Y DE HOMBRES"

ROBERT LINHART

El principal objetivo que planea de "De cadenas y de hombres" es la cuestión de la influencia sindical sobre la evolución de las formas de trabajo. Mas que la historia aislada de una huelga infructuosa, narra la situación en la que se encontraban las organizaciones sindicales y los obreros de la Francia, y en general del mundo entero, durante los 60's. En la Francia de esa época, no existía una tradición en la materia de la organización del trabajo porque los sindicatos nunca se comprometieron en ese terreno. Las transformaciones que se dieron desde entonces hasta la fecha, las cuales afectaron los intereses obrero - empresa, aunque principalmente los intereses de este último, la evolución y transformación de las negociaciones sindicato - empresa y de sus modalidades, la necesidad de nuevas condiciones sociales, sobre todo referente al empleo, contribuyeron a un recentramiento en torno a todas estas cuestiones y a un mayor interés por parte de los obreros y de los sindicatos.

No obstante, al inicio de estos movimientos, ninguna ideología iba en este sentido. La organización del trabajo no se modernizaba en sus principios, no planteaba nuevas soluciones, sino que todo parecía estático y aislado (como lo relata el libro, había mas movimientos en otras empresas y países, pero estos no estaban en comunicación, o la información no llegaba de un lugar a otro). Además los sindicatos, semidesmembrados por métodos de intimidación y agresión (como lo que ocurre con el movimiento de Linhart en la Citroën), no parecían en condiciones de comprender la necesidad de una reorganización del trabajo.


How to Get a Job With a Cruise Line: How to Sail Around the World on Luxury Cruise Ships and Get Paid for It (4th Edition)
Published in Paperback by Ticket to Adventure (February, 1997)
Author: Mary Fallon Miller
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Especially good for those right out of school
The book contains a great deal of information, but the author takes a lot of space describing how to be professional in your phone calls, letters, applications, resumes, interviews, etc. This info is invaluable for the first-timer who is not familiar with job-hunting, but for those who have been working for some time, this is old hat.

What I found most valuable is the careful descriptions of the cruiselines. However, the book was published pre-9/11, so there is no reference to how the world and the travel industry have changed since then, or how the disaster affected the cruise industry. Perhaps in the next edition the author will include this assessment.
Bottom line: buy it. You'll find something useful.

I bought book for my daughter...my travel agent told me
I asked my travel agent how my daugher could get a job with a cruise ship. She told me about this book and to call cruise lines international association--when I called them, they gave me this book's name too. My daughter is using the addressed and application guidelines to send her resume. I felt betterabout this book, because there are so many fly-by-night web sites that I did not trust. this was much less expensive and it istrustworthy

My granddaughter won't have to work at McDonalds this summer
I've always shared my love of travel with my children. When my granddaughter started searching for a summer job - I told her to dream big- She is already applying to cruise lines using this book. She's a fine girl and I'd like her to have the opportunities I've had - but right now- she needs to earn money--I feel secure learning more about possible jobs from reading Miss Miller's book. I recommend it.


10 Hour Series: On-Line Resume and Job Search
Published in Audio CD by South-Western Educational Publishing (16 November, 1999)
Authors: Karl Barksdale and Michael Rutter
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Assessing passing opportunities : literature review
Published in Unknown Binding by Transit New Zealand (1996)
Author: M. J. Thrush
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Blue-Collar Ministry: Problems and Opportunities in Main Line "Middle" Congregations (Al 112)
Published in Paperback by Alban Inst (December, 1985)
Authors: Steele W. Martin and Priscilla C. Martin
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Bouncing Back: How to Stay in the Game When Your Career Is on the Line
Published in Hardcover by McGraw-Hill (January, 1992)
Author: Andrew J. DuBrin
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Cd Rom: Threat to On-Line Services, Opportunity for Second Tier Publishers
Published in Hardcover by (November, 1988)
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Criminal Circumstance: A Dynamic Multicontextual Criminal Opportunity Theory (New Lines in Criminology)
Published in Paperback by Walter de Gruyter, Inc. (01 April, 2003)
Authors: Pamela Wilcox, Kenneth C. Land, Scott A. Hunt, and Clemens A. Bartollas
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Cruising: A Guide to the Cruise Line Industry (Cruising)
Published in Paperback by Delmar Publishers (August, 2003)
Author: Marc. Ph.D. Mancini
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