Monday 9 October 2017

Magazine Fillers

Carol Bevitt has some useful advice for anyone interested in writing 'fillers' for magazines.

Amongst other things, she mentions replying to Facebook questions from magazines. I did that once and got paid after my answer (on whether people meant and kept their wedding vows) was published.

5 comments:

Sharon Boothroyd said...

Once? Why only once Patsy?
I've had tons of fillers published!
Now I'm getting more stories accepted, I've dropped the fillers a bit, but I still sub the odd letter or poem.
It's a great way to boost earnings and get into print, plus payment is usually pretty prompt too.

Maggie Cobbett said...

So much so that I once even brought out a little 'how to' book on the subject. I know we're not allowed to advertise on this site, but some of you might remember and have found it useful.

Jo said...

Thanks. I keep meaning to try something like this.

Patsy said...

@ Sharon, It was just once for the replying on Facebook thing. I've written in more times than that.

@ Maggie - I remember - in fact there's a post on here somewhere, about your book.

@ Jo - go for it.

Carolb said...

Thanks for the mention, Patsy.

Agree with Sharon & Maggie. Good luck Jo. :-)