The Essential Guide to Freelance Writing tells you whether you will like it in the title. Do you want to be a freelance writer? Do you need an essential guide to doing it? If the answers to both questions are "yes" then this book is one you should have.
It has 10 chapters plus an introduction and an appendix and covers all the essential points including writing queries, style, some pointers on method and craft, how to come up with ideas and more. Petit has a light and breezy style which makes for easy reading; if anything, I found it a little too light and breezy. The book is 233 pages long (including index), the pages are not large, the print is big and there are lots of nontextual additions, headings and subheadings. That's not the format I prefer, but it doesn't really detract from the book.
This isn't a complete book on how to write. Entire books could be and have been written about each of its chapters. But it is what it says it is: A guide to the essentials. It's also not a book to simply read through; you'll want to put it on a reference shelf.
Zachary Petit is a freelance writer and editor in chief of Print. He is also a former editor of Writer's Digest.
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