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Feminine Wiles |
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 Feminine Wiles:Creative Techniques For Writing Women's Feature Stories That Sell By Donna Elizabeth Boetig Word Dancer Press Inc 185 pages, 1998 ISBN 1884956025 Reviewed by Nancy Duncan Read our author interview If you've dreamed of writing articles for women's magazines, then a must-have resource is Donna Boetig's Feminine Wiles. This practical guide is full of solid information gleamed from hard work and personal experience writing for editors of distinguished magazines such as Woman's Day, The Saturday Evening Post, McCall's, and Reader's Digest. The book is designed to help the novice as well as the experienced freelance writer get inside the mind of an editor as well as beneath the covers of the glossy magazines. Boetig encourages writers to send out packets of queries, giving editors the opportunity to choose from more than one idea. This goes against all the rules of the trade, thus debunking the one query at a time method. Boetig explains her philosophy. Offering unique stories an editor can't get from anyone else provides the writer with a better than average chance of breaking in. "Sometimes the best drama is your own drama," she states. Boetig believes this one element alone, often overlooked, can result in assignments. Throughout the book, she lists plenty of concrete examples from her own success stories which caught the eye of submission drained editors. If you're tired of rejection slips, Feminine Wiles offers sure-fire ideas to boost your chances of selling to the women's magazine markets. |
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