5 Ways You Can Get Paid To Write Online
forbes.com – Wednesday April 30, 2025
If you have a knack for stringing words together in a way that’s coherent, adds value, and strongly appeals to your target audience, you can make money online. It won’t be easy initially, but as you build up your reputation, proof of your work, and the results you deliver, your writing will pay off more than you’d ever imagine.
Freelance writing has strong appeal in the side hustle and freelance world because it is so easy and inexpensive to start. Getting paid to write online is so ridiculously simple to set up that this appears frequently in write-ups about side hustle ideas and ways to make money online. All you need is your laptop and a stable internet connection, which means you don’t need any investment or capital to begin making profits.
Because there are low barriers to entry for you to making money online with writing, you can literally begin writing online today and start earning within a week, depending on your current audience or following, how well you market yourself, and a range of other factors.
New Literary Agent Listing: Cole Hildebrand
firstwriter.com – Tuesday April 29, 2025
Represents adult literary and upmarket fiction, and narrative non-fiction, with particular focus on queer themes and stories.
In non-fiction, he is drawn to narrative and/or investigative work that blends personal, cultural, political, and historical threads – books that engage with radical thought, queer history, art, pop culture, environmental studies, and mental health. He is also interested in outward-focused memoirs and well-researched accounts of understudied historical periods or movements.
In fiction, he is looking for contemporary upmarket, literary, and experimental work, and is open to novels that blur genre elements in surprising or unconventional ways. He is drawn to stories driven by character and voice that play with form and narrative structure, written with stylistically distinctive prose.
New independent press to focus on male writers
theguardian.com – Monday April 28, 2025
Conduit Books will not ‘seek an adversarial stance … but the emphasis at first will be on ambitious, funny, political and cerebral fiction by men that is being passed by’
A writer and critic has launched a new independent press that will focus on publishing books by male writers.
Conduit Books, founded by Jude Cook, will publish literary fiction and memoir, “focusing initially on male authors”.
Cook said the publishing landscape has changed “dramatically” over the past 15 years as a reaction to the “prevailing toxic male-dominated literary scene of the 80s, 90s and noughties”. Now, “excitement and energy around new and adventurous fiction is around female authors – and this is only right as a timely corrective”.
“This new breed of young female authors, spearheaded by Sally Rooney et al, ushered in a renaissance for literary fiction by women, giving rise to a situation where stories by new male authors are often overlooked, with a perception that the male voice is problematic,” he said.
Novelist Keshava Guha to become Aevitas UK's first literary agent in India
thebookseller.com – Friday April 25, 2025
Novelist, journalist and publisher Keshava Guha is joining Aevitas Creative Management UK (ACM UK) as a literary agent, effective immediately. Guha will be based in India, where he will build an international list of clients, primarily in non-fiction – across history, biography, social science, psychology, music and sport – but with select fiction projects.
He was previously a senior editor at Juggernaut Books and is the author of Accidental Magic (HarperCollins Publishers India) and The Tiger’s Share (John Murray). As a journalist and essayist, he writes about politics, culture and sport.
5 Writing Tips from C.S. Lewis
nofilmschool.com – Wednesday April 23, 2025
Learn how to world build from the guy behind Narnia.
When I was a kid, I devoured every fantasy novel I could get my hands on, and that includes the Chronicles of Narnia books by C.S. Lewis. I found the books to be incredibly accessible and to hold up as an adult.
Of course, Lewis wrote many more stories that have become part of our cultural lexicon, from The Screwtape Letters to the Space Trilogy and many more.
Today, I wanted to dissect some writing tips from the prolific author.
C.S. Lewis has an uncanny ability to connect with people of all walks of life through his direct writing that had some noisy hooks.
There are five lessons I think writers of any persuasion would benefit to learn from him.
Get ready to write your book: 5 tips on becoming an author
poynter.org – Wednesday April 23, 2025
My new book arrived on my doorstep today: “Writing Tools for the College Admissions Essay.”
If you are counting, that makes 21 books with my name on the cover as editor or author. But it is only with the last eight, published by Little, Brown, that I have identified myself as an author. Since 2006, more than a half million of my books have found their way into print. This includes digital books, audiobooks and translations into eight languages.
I am not as productive as Stephen King, who has written a good book on writing, but eight books in fewer than 20 years seems like a good run.
What is the secret of productivity? (I am thinking more and more about that question as I get ready to teach in a new Poynter program this June on supporting the work of aspiring book authors.)
I don’t want to leave you in suspense. So here are a few ideas to launch your new writing career.
The Power Of BookTok: Why TikTok’s Book Community Is Driving A New Era In Publishing
forbes.com – Monday April 21, 2025
What began as a cozy nook on the corner of the internet, has quickly transformed into a global phenomenon. As of 2025, #BookTok has accumulated 370 billion views, with over 52 million creations jumping on board–skyrocketing bestsellers, reviving backlist titles and informing reading habits worldwide1.
At its core, BookTok thrives on community-driven content: emotional reviews, hot takes, character impersonations and viral recommendations land these reads on the feeds of not just the literary set, but diverse audiences around the world.
To help publishers tap into this momentum, we’ve compiled strategies, insights, and case studies on the Publisher Insights Hub to make the most of the BookTok boom.
‘Balancing Output with Input’: Margaret Rogerson on Writing Fantasy, Taking Breaks, and Balancing Inspiration and Hard Work
thecrimson.com – Tuesday April 15, 2025
When a reader opens the pages of a fantasy novel, they might relish in anticipation of entering a new, imaginative world and a thrilling and delightful reading experience. But, what does writing fantasy novels look like? What is the journey and the daily routine of an author who creates these fantastical universes, traveling between foreign places from one novel to another?
While such questions might seem abstract and difficult to answer, sitting down and talking to the authors who have experienced them offers exciting insights. This column, “The Daily Desk,” strives to answer these questions: What is an author’s daily routine, and what can we learn from their writing experiences?
“A hug in book form”
A New York Times and internationally bestselling author, Margaret Rogerson began her career with the young adult fantasy standalone “An Enchantment of Ravens” in 2017, continuing with “Sorcery of Thorns” in 2019 and “Vespertine” in 2021.
Taking Humor Writing Seriously
sfwa.org – Tuesday April 15, 2025
A few years ago, I was on a panel on Humorous SF at a convention (an occupational hazard, given what I write). I opened with well-rehearsed remarks about how there seemed to be a resistance to my beloved subgenre among major publishers. Before I could get very far, a person in the audience stood up and said, “Isn’t it true that there aren’t a lot of humorous sci-fi stories because they’re hard to write?”
Hmm…
I can’t argue with that. I view writing humor as drama+: A comic story must do everything a dramatic story does (it has to have characters the reader cares about and an engaging story), plus it has to make the reader laugh. Humorous genre writing can be considered drama++: It has to do everything a dramatic story does, plus make the reader laugh, plus contain genre tropes (aliens or robots for science fiction, magic systems for fantasy, dread for horror, and so on). I write satire, which adds another layer onto this formula—by now, I’m sure you can do the creative math.
New Literary Agent Listing: Lily Dolin
firstwriter.com – Tuesday April 15, 2025
She represents authors in both fiction and nonfiction, including YA, with books ranging from commercial to literary and everything in between. She is actively looking for novels with strong hooks, propulsive plots, dark and offbeat humor, and nuanced female perspectives. She especially loves sweeping family dramas, strange and unusual women in strange and unusual circumstances, and smart speculative bents. In nonfiction, she is looking for narrative nonfiction, memoirs, or essay collections that are funny, outrageous, shocking, emotional, or all of the above. She particularly loves food stories, true crime, pop culture, and untold history with a feminist angle.
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