Building a Freelance Career – The Art of Editorial Seduction

We offer both tailor-made and ready-made intensive tuition delivered to small groups of up to four clients to help you achieve your writing and publishing goals quickly.

Course Content

It's an intensive master class for anyone serious about building a freelance career.

The Tutors

Peter Cross and Sabina Dosani are a prolific writing and editing partnership. Between them they have written ten books and have contributed hundreds of features, articles, interviews and reviews to the Guardian, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Telegraph Magazine, Daily and Sunday Express, Independent on Sunday, The Independent, New Statesman, Saga, BMJ, Hospital Doctor, Nursing Times, Nursing Standard as well as a number of local newspapers. Peter and Sabina are co-editors of BMJ Career Focus so have first hand experience of accepting and rejecting unsolicited manuscripts and suggestions from writers of all standards.

We have applied for CPD/CME approval.

Programme

Getting to know you
You’ll begin by setting goals for the day and for your writing.
This helps identify training needs and gaps in knowledge and sets the day’s agenda.

What’s out there?
Markets
Assessing magazines and newspapers and finding openings for freelancers
Who to contact
Best ways of contacting decision makers

The art of editorial seduction
Selling proposals
Perfect pitches: putting it on paper, phoning, persistence
You will produce a credible email proposal
Telephone role play

Brainwave to bookshop
You know that book you’ve always wanted to write?
We’ll help you turn your day dream into a published book

Writing for publication
Making your stuff sing
Rewriting for a professional look and feel

Action planning
Taking your new agenda forward.
Converting your goals into do-able tasks