Sell Your Reprints Residual Income Make Money to Write About Your Kids for 4 99 This Week

Okay, I realize a lot of you are seeing this or getting this in your email inbox because you already have the ebook Make Money to Write About Your Kids: Get Published in Parenting and Family Magazines.

For those who dont know what it is, here is the description AND I want you to know that for the next FIVE DAYS ONLY it is on Kindle Countdown for only $4.99 ... which is half the normal price, which is always a steal. Youll see! If you hate it, get a refund! If you love it, get in touch with me, start writing, tell your writer friends and writer groups about this Little Engine That Could resource that has changed lives but remains still, sadly, under the radar. Heres how to purchase!

My bet is that quite often you read a magazine or online article and say to yourself, “I could have written that – and better!” So you write your essay or article. Then what? Where do you submit it? Do you give up at this point? I’ve seen it happen too many times. Your writing dreams are crushed and those paychecks are never going to show up in your mailbox. 

Think of this ebook as your writing angel. It has 16 chapters of useful information before it dives into 239 paying markets, complete with submission email addresses, submission guidelines and pay information. This is the 5th edition of the ebook, and over the years it has been perfected to include not just regional markets such as San Diego Family, BC Parent, Orlando Family and more, but also has added national markets such as FamilyFun, BabyTalk, Parents, Parenting, Homeschooling Today and many more. 

I have personally been published in 138 regional parenting magazines in print and online since publishing this resource, all while maintaining a home, a marriage and homeschooling. I love being able to be at home with my kids while also living my dream of writing and making money for my family. I can get my work done mostly while the kids sleep and then head out to the pool or to the zoo with them! I want other mom and dad writers to be able to realize their dreams, as well. And, of course, you dont have to be a parent to write for and sell your reprints to these regional parenting publications!

*Please email me at mommykerrie at yahoo dot com after your purchase so I can send you the FREE at-a-glance spreadsheet that simply did not look right on the Kindle format! It has all the magazines, emails, approximate pay and state. 

You can find the list of publications I have worked with here: http://www.thekerrieshow.com/2008/03/cool-places-to-get-published.html

5 Sample Markets out of 285 from the Book Make Money to Write About Your Kids

This post over here will get you started. It tells about the 6th edition of my ebook and how the print edition is coming within a week or so! VERY EXCITING! You will carry the print version with you everywhere, highlighting pubs you get published in and sticky-noteing the pubs you want to pitch to!

I figured you might want a sample of the markets from the ebook/print book to get yourself all excited and psyched to start writing and sending old and new material to these markets. They want your stuff! They even want your witty parenting blog post that didnt get a lot of traffic but that you KNOW would do well in a magazine ... and you would make money as well! Heres your sample of just the first 5 markets in the book! Some are just a website and email address for now for submitting. Others are quite extensive with specific guidelines and pay information. Enjoy!

(201)family NORTH JERSEY

201magazine.com

editor@201magazine.com

A FINE PARENT (online)

afineparent.com

sumitha@afineparent.com

Guidelines: Write for us about Our Current Topic, which can be found online. Submit detailed outline by approximately the 4^thof each month. I will let you know if your outline is accepted on approximately the 6th. The first draft of the full article is due by approximately the 13th. Payment will be made within 24 hours of receiving the final draft. Payment per accepted article is $100 + links + a shot at the annual bonus. (NOTE: This page is updated on the 1st of each month with a new topic and submission dates. Please sign up for notifications.) A Fine Parent is an online community for parents who believe that Great Parents are Made, Not Born. We focus on one topic each month that can help us become better people and better parents. Each week on the blog I publish one in-depth article related to the monthly topic. Initially, I wrote all the articles for this blog myself. After sharing a few readers stories and guest posts however, I realized just how much we can all benefit from shared wisdom and diverse voices. Hence this call for you to write for us. If you are constantly working on becoming a better parent, if you have a few hard-earned nuggets of wisdom under your sleeve, if you see another parent and instantly connect, AND if you happen to be a writer as well … boy, have we been waiting for you!

What We Look for In the Articles We Publish:

·         the article MUST offer practical and actionable advice/tips

·         the article MUST contain personal stories and anecdotes that connect with the other parents in our community (blah list posts won’t cut it)

·         the article MUST be written in web-format (well-organized; skimmable; short paragraphs; lists and bullets when possible; custom illustrations when possible)

·         the article MUST include references to books, research or other authoritative references (you can even link to articles on your own blog as long as it is relevant and offers value)

·         the article MUST be original and not published anywhere else before

·         the article MUST contain the mandatory “2-minute action plan” (contemplation/reflection questions) and the “long-term action plan” (specific action to take over the next week) sections at the bottom of the article (see the bottom of any article for samples)

·         Most articles on the blog are in the 1,500-2,500 words range. I prefer to stick to that range, but will make exceptions on a case-by-case basis.

By submitting the article you agree that if your article is published, I will retain the rights to republish or reuse the material in the future, of course with due credit to you. If you’re not familiar with the blog, please spend some time there to get a feel for it first. You may even consider joining our community and just watching what gets posted for a bit before you start writing for us.

How to Submit

·         Send me an email with the article outline before the deadline. Include as many details as possible to help me make an informed decision (for instance, mention any background stories that you plan to tie in, a list of the practical tips that will be included, references that will be used, any books that will be mentioned etc.)

·         If you have published online before, please send me a few links so I can get a sense of your writing style.

·         If your outline is accepted, send the completed article as a word document before the deadline.

·         Include the keywords “Kick-ass Article for AFP” in ALL your email subject lines. (I get a LOT of mail, so this is extremely important to ensure that you receive a prompt response from me).

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

1.       I missed the deadline for this month, or this month’s topic does not resonate with me. Do you by any chance have a list of the future topics?

Yes, sort of. A Fine Parent has been evolving into a true community blog and the topics we cover now are picked by our readers through a survey. A link to the response from our latest survey is online, and that should give you an idea of what we will cover next.

2.       How do you notify me about the outline?

I do my best to notify everyone of (a) the receipt of the outline and (b) the final decision. It will help immensely if you include the keywords “Kick-ass Article for AFP” in ALL your email subject lines. I receive a lot of mails and those words are part of an email filter that marks your mails as important so I can respond in a timely manner.

3.       What kind of articles are more likely to get selected?

We’ve been doing this for a few months now, and a pattern is beginning to emerge. The articles that I end up publishing are the ones where I see that you personally relate to the topic you’ve chosen to write about and hence will be able to connect more authentically and genuinely with the reader. For instance, if you are writing about how to teach kids to be compassionate, then either you’ve had to deal with your child acting unexpectedly mean, or your child has been a victim of bullying. Also, the “lessons learned”/ ”what I’m trying to do”/ ”what is working for me now” parts of your article tend to be much more real and not a riff off of a few Google search results. Think of it … You are a parent too. Which one of these would you rather read—a preachy list of things of what you must do in any given situation, or a real-life account of what another parent did in a very similar situation, their thought process, the obstacles they came up against and how they triumphed?

4.       Can I submit more than one outline?

No. Please submit only one outline per month. See #3 above. I’d rather that the focus be on quality than on quantity, and you send me that one article about the topic that most resonates with you.

If you have not written for us before or if you’ve not been a member of our community for long, please use the suggestions below to send your first outline. Also, please be sure to pick something you have personal experience with—anecdotes, unique perspectives and lessons learnt are highly valued in our community (hashed up lists compiled using Google search generally don’t make the cut). If you can bring professional advice from your day job and apply it in a clever and practical way to this month’s topic, please do—these are some of the most highly prized articles we seek out!

Approximate pay: $100 per article via PayPal with the chance for a $200 bonus at the end of the year if your piece is the most popular.

ABOUT FAMILIES – BERKS COUNTY

ABOUT FAMILIES – LEBANON COUNTY

Lebanon, PA

www.aboutfamiliespa.com

maric@aboutfamiliespa.com

Guidelines: Keep pieces under 600 words.

Approximate pay: $10-20 per article.

ACTIVE FAMILY

Pleasanton, CA

activefamilymag.com

info@activekidsbayarea.com

ADDITUDE

additudemag.com

submissions@additudemag.com

Make Money to Write About Your Kids Print Version

We are getting close, writer and blogger friends! You can click this link to buy the ebook now if you just cant wait, but right now my husband is proofreading the print proof of the same book for clarity and all that and, since we are in Houston currently with him for work, I will be giving it a GO FOR LAUNCH before we leave Houston next week. (dont do run-on sentences like that when you write articles for the regional or national parenting publications, please ... do as I say, not as I sometimes do ... LOL!). Here is my husband proofing the proof at our hotel and here is the post where you can find updates to the print version because things change fast in the magazine publishing world!

How to write a DMCA

DMCA stands for Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In case you found someone took your vector and sell it at certain agency, you can write a DMCA to the agency to request for the removal of the infringed item. Recently, someone took my artwork, modified it, and sell it at a specific agency. I have contacted the Support about it, but they have requested me to write them a DMCA. Below is a sample on how to write a DMCA.

My copyrighted work: [state your URL item here] 

The infinging item: [state the URL of the item that used your work]  

This is a copyright for the following reasons:

1. [state your reason on why/how you think he steals your work]

2. [state your reason on why/how you think he steals your work]

3. [state your reason on why/how you think he steals your work]

My info:

Name: [your name]

Address: [your full address]

Tel: [your telephone number]

Email: [your email address]

I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegelly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

I swear, under penalty or perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

[your signature here]

Once you have write the above, print it out, and then put your signature on it. After that, scan it into an image file (JPEG) and send it to agency by email.

I hope the above will help those in need of a DMCA sample.

UPDATES to 6th Edition of Make Money to Write About Your Kids

Please check back here regularly for updates to the 6th edition of Make Money to Write About Your Kids, as publications are always starting up and going out of business and making email changes!

Thats what great about the print edition of the book:  you can just cross out the ones that are out of business and add in the new ones! Then make sure to adjust your email submission list accordingly! Here we go:

Alamo Area Kids & Family ... do not submit. They are not a paying market and asked me to take them off my list for submissions entirely.

4/21/15 ... Solo Parent is not a paying market. If you would like to get some coverage and offer them a piece for free, go for it, but they do not pay. I apologize for adding them to the book without researching enough.

Parents Source is no longer publishing.

If you get bounceback from Omaha Familys email in the book, try lauren at hathawaypublishing dot net

Space City Publishing (several magazines): kim at spacecitypublishing dot com

Red River Family: working on getting publisher at redriverfamily dot com or laura at redriverfamily dot com to go through and asking their best email for submissions

Sacramento Parent: shelly at sacramentoparent dot com

Maritime Family relaunching fall 2015

Coastal Family: editor at coastalfamily dot com

Utah Family: I hate to do this but I am taking them out of the book. I find my articles in their publication, notify them and then it takes them forever to pay. I recently contacted some other writer friends and they had the same experience. Once writer has been waiting two years for payment. This is not acceptable. If you dont treat your writers well, you will find yourself with no writers! Ill be calling them.

Flagler Parent/Volusia Parent: I am hearing from other writers that they are finding their work in these magazines from recently to way back and were not contacted or paid. Submit at your own risk. Ill be placing a phone call today.

Hello, Darling (MOPS) does NOT pay but they have a large following of 120K with 60K Facebook fans so consider giving them one freebie

Treasure Coast Parenting: trying k.ferraro at tcparenting dot com ... I had two emails for her and believe that period makes a difference

Tidwater Parent is no longer in print so please delete them from your list

Offspring Australia is nonpaying

Good Life Family needs tween and teen articles but nothing about small kids, babies, toddlers, etc.

Richmond Family Magazine only uses local writers

Bay State Parent is not accepting submissions at this time

Baltimores Child try joanne@baltimoreschild.com

Chicken Soup for the Multitasking Moms Soul Write For Them!

Have you ever wanted to write for the ever-popular Chicken Soup series of books? Now is the time! Check out this great possible book they are thinking about publishing. They are waiting for YOUR submission! Deadline is July 31, and some guidelines are below. Good luck! Oh, and if you missed Chicken Soup for the Soul Inspiration for Writers like I did, you can purchase it here at Amazon. This can be my late birthday present from my husband!

Multitasking Moms Survival Guide 
Moms are the busiest people in the world! They juggle kids, husbands, jobs, housework, paid work, volunteer work, parents, pets, etc. How do they do it? Sometimes they are successful and get everything done. Sometimes... disasters happen! Busy moms - here is your chance to pass along your words of wisdom, your lessons learned, your funny or embarrassing moments. Pretend youre talking to a friend and share your wonderful stories with other busy moms. The deadline for story and poem submissions is July 31, 2013.

Recipe for A Winning Chicken Soup for the Soul Story

A Chicken Soup for the Soul story is an inspirational, true story about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. It is a story that opens the heart and rekindles the spirit. It is a simple, inter-denominational, living art piece that touches the soul of the readers and helps them discover basic principles they can use in their own lives. They are personal and often filled with emotion and drama. They are filled with vivid images created by using the five senses. In some stories, the readers feel that they are actually in the scene with the people.

Chicken Soup for the Soul stories are written in the first person and have a beginning, middle and an ending that often closes with a punch, creating emotion rather than simply talking about it. Chicken Soup for the Soul stories have heart, but also something extra…an element that makes us all feel more hopeful, more connected, more thankful, more passionate and better about life in general. A story that causes tears, laughter, goosebumps or any combination of these. A good story covers the range of human emotions.

The most powerful stories are about people extending themselves, or performing an act of love, service or courage for another person.

Guidelines for a Chicken Soup for the Soul Story

1. Tell an exciting, sad or funny story about something that has happened to you or someone you know. Make sure that you introduce the character(s). Please know that your story should be written in the first person.

2. Tell your story in a way that will make the reader cry, laugh or get goose bumps (the good kind!) Don’t leave anything out — how did you feel?

3. The story should start with action; it should include a problem, issue or situation. It should include dialogue and the characters should express their feelings through the conflict or situation. It should end in a result, such as a lesson learned, a positive change or pay-off.

4. Above all, let it come from your HEART! Your story is important!

What a Chicken Soup for the Soul story IS NOT:

1. A sermon, an essay or eulogy.

2. An "as told to" story written in the third person.

3. A term paper, thesis, letter or journal entry.

4. About politics or controversial issues.

5. A biography or testimonial.

Story Specifications

1. We are no longer able to accept or consider any submissions sent by fax or postal mail. Please know that the only way to submit your stories or poems to us is via our website: www.chickensoup.com. If you have any problems when trying to submit, please contact our webmaster at:webmaster@chickensoupforthesoul.com. Responses usually take several days to receive.

2. Stories and poems must be non-fiction and should be no longer than 1,200 words.

3. No anonymous, author unknown or "as told to" submissions, please.

4. We prefer that you submit your stories only once, but if you believe your story fits in more than one book topic, please indicate which other topics you have submitted it for in the Comments line on the submission form. Submitting the SAME story more than once to the SAME topic causes delays, so please resist the urge to submit your story multiple times to the same topic.

5. Be sure to keep a copy of the stories and/or poems that you submit to us. Please do not contact us and ask us to send you a copy of anything you have previously submitted. We are unable to do that.

6. Please submit only stories or poems that have not been previously published. The only exception to this is if your work has only been published in a small local publication with limited circulation.  

If the story or poem you wrote is published by us, you will be paid $200 upon publication of the book plus you will receive ten free copies of the book your story or poem appears in.

Weekly Writer Challenge 2 Write One Entire Article for an RPM RPP

In case you missed it, here is Weekly Writer Challenge #1, to write down 10 article ideas for the regional parenting magazines. You can still catch up to us!

AND ... all this is free! Lots of other writers charge beaucoup bucks and call it a CLASS, but folks, I have no class, so this little situation here is FREE! Lets hold each other accountable and make some dang money writing for magazines, increasing our pay as we go!

As with the last challenge, please share this with any bloggers (= aspiring writers) or writers you know so they can participate. I have lately been seeing many writers making one red cent per word to write all day long to pull down the bucks, and I want so badly to pull them out of that situation and let them know their work is worth so much more than that, even if it DOES take weeks to get paid sometimes!

Again, you have until Sunday to do this second challenge, then more challenges will come out on Mondays and you will have 7 days to complete them and report back here! Even if you didnt do it or only half-assed it, let me know, because chances are I might not always be rockin the challenge, either.

At the very least, we can offer support to each other. Dont forget there is also a Facebook fan page for this site where we can interact and you can always email me at mommykerrie at yahoo dot com, and when it comes time to start submitting, you have to have the resource Im using so we can be Submission Twins.

So, here you go:

CHALLENGE #2 is to WRITE AN ENTIRE ARTICLE for the regionals (the smalls). Yep, pick one of your 10 award-winning ideas and turn it into something. If those people I referenced above can turnout 1,000-word articles with HOURS for a deadline and make $10, you can certainly take a week to write something pretty great, including personal quotes (dont have to be local) and some nice research and maybe even some personal anecdotes from you.

If you need help, just write me (see above). And do not freak out!

Check out these links for some ideas of stuff Ive gotten published. At the very least, you will be like, "Wow, she got THAT published and made actual decent bank off of it? I could write that in my sleep and better!"

Heres something pretty recent about organic gardening on a budget from an online gig I have. Then I spun it a little bit and submitted to all the RPMs (I have about 160 email addresses in my address book).

Heres one of my VERY FIRST pieces, from back in 2009 when I was super green.

Feel free to Google my name+articles for more parenting mayhem.

Good luck!

Make Money to Write About Your Kids

Welcome! If you have come here looking for national parenting magazine guidelines, you have come to the right place. My ebook contains national guidelines, as well as many regional parenting magazine guidelines. The regionals also pay quite well and are a terrific place to sell your reprints over and over while you are waiting to hear back on your national queries!

Make Money to Write About Your Kids (Get Published in Parenting and Family Magazines)

256 pages in this ebook

238 markets in this ebbok

UNLIMITED opportuities to get published!

This amazing 256-page resource contains everything you need to get published in regional, national, international and online family, parenting, womens and homeschooling markets.

I have used this very ebook since 2008 to get published in over 120 magazines, and Im still getting assignments and getting published in new markets monthly! You can find  my publishing credits at http://thekerrieshow.com.

This ebook also includes 14 steps to take to get published, 15 ways to generate ideas, 22 general submission guidelines, 25 mistakes to avoid, local sidebars and quotes, exclusivity, simultaneous submissions and rights, cover versus query letters, cover and query letter samples, your author website and how to build one, your reprint list and sending it out, taking on assignments, getting paid, a typical writers release sample, asample invoice, sample submission tracking spreadsheet, time tracking spreadsheet, income tracking spreadsheet, published clips tracking spreadsheet and more!

Only $30! Buy here!

Check out the references and recommendations about this ebook at http://www.thekerrieshow.com/2008/01/references-and-recommendations.html

FREE Kindle Version of Make Money to Write About Your Kids! Through June 19 2015

Dont worry, Ill get all caught up with my daily submission challenge. Mr. Kerrie is out of town and my birthday is tomorrow and Im flipping out around here (and doing some reading while sitting by the pool with the kids). Anyway, thought youd want to know about this! My birthday is the 19th so this book is free on Kindle through midnight on the 19th. Grab it and tell your friends!

FREE! Writers and Bloggers take note of my huge resource! A Writers Market for the parenting/family niche that is helping hundreds of writers get their blog posts and articles published and they are also getting paid! 285 markets plus advice to jumpstart your magazine career!

Parenting Publications of America Site vs Make Money to Write About Your Kids Book

DING DING.

In this corner you have the Parenting Publications of America site.

In this corner you have the underdog:  Kerrie McLoughlin and her ebook Make Money to Write About Your Kids.

Lets see who wins.

If you want to save your money on my ebook, go ahead and spend hours (like I did three years ago) grabbing information from the PPA website.

But realize that that site only has HALF the markets my ebook has and NO bonus national, online and international markets.

And it doesn’t put the email addresses into a nice table.

And it doesn’t share any pay information or writer’s guidelines or editorial calendars or writing tips.

AND it wants $40 for 12 months of access.

So if you go with Kerrie in this fight, YOU win!

Updated version available February 16, 2015 for $8.99 with a print version option on the way soon after in case you like to have a paper copy to mark up like I do. I like to highlight publications I have had my work published in and make notes about pay and any changes that occur throughout the year.

How to Get the Kids to Do Chores so You Can Write WriterMom

You might not know that I homeschool, so I have FIVE little people around all day. You must be wondering at this point if I have a clone so I can write for so many regional parenting publications.

I wish!

No matter how many kids you have running around, there are chores that need to be done, and I think I might FINALLY have something in place that will get all the little things done that need to be done around the house. And no, I did not have 5 children so they could be my minions. I am merely instilling responsibility in them now since when they grow up they will be doing chores around their own pad.

[Who am I kidding? Odds are at least two of the five will turn out like me: MESSY and SLOBBY but can find anything in a pinch for about 20 years after leaving home and THEN the realization will hit them around 40 that keeping things kinda picked up and purged is a lot easier than cleaning for days at a time after it gets out of hand!]

Just head over to my its-a-good-kind-of-crazy blog about my life, The Kerrie Show, to check out my chore chart. You also get a bonus Funny Bathroom Cleaning Instructions. Its a little service I like to provide, no charge.

Weekly Writer Challenge 1 Write Down 10 Ideas for Articles

Okay, new plan. We are going to write TOGETHER. I need a butt-kickin just like maybe you do. I am going to assume you like to procrastinate like I do. Or are extremely busy. Or sometimes maybe even do something crazy like ... oh, I dont know ... CLEAN when you are on a deadline and should be writing.

So Im going to give you some challenges. Please share this with any bloggers (= aspiring writers) or writers you know so they can participate.

You have until Sunday to do this first challenge, then new challenges will come out on Mondays and you will have 7 days to complete them and report back here! Even if you didnt do it or only half-assed it, let me know, because chances are I might not always be rockin the challenge, either.

At the very least, we can offer support to each other. Dont forget there is also a Facebook fan page for this site where we can interact and you can always email me at mommykerrie at yahoo dot com, and when it comes time to start submitting, you have to have the resource Im using so we can be Submission Twins.

CHALLENGE #1 is to come up with 10 ideas for articles for the regionals (the smalls). Lead time is not usually as long as with the nationals (the bigs) so you can spitball some summer ideas NOW, for instance.

Check out the photo below for some help (general categories, but you need a more solid idea, which nobody is going to steal, dammit), and Ill see you next week!

Oh, and because Im a pushover mama, Im also a pushover writing coach, so here is some more help!

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My ebook, Make Money to Write About Your Kids 5th edition, is FREE Thursday 8/15 through Sunday 8/18. I would love it if you would download it and come back to leave a review if the urge strikes you!

Im working hard to get the word out about my book baby that was born in 2009 but that really hasnt done fabulously in sales. Im hoping Amazon is the way to go ... I really want to get this resource into the hands of those who want to write for parenting and family markets!

Heres the link. Please share it with your friends, family, neighbors, anybody! Remember, its only free Thursday through Sunday then it goes back to the price of $9.99.

Thanks so much for your support over the years!

Giveaway of Make Money to Write About Your Kids !!!

Its time for a giveaway of a print copy of Make Money to Write About Your Kids: Get Published in Regional, National & Online Parenting & Family Magazines!!!!!!

If you blog or write at all, you need this book! If you like to make money at all, you need this book! If you want to work from home and be with your kids or write while on vacation or while traveling or on the go, you need this book!

There are 285 markets in this book and I add new ones in the Updates section of this site and make sure to update email addresses and pay information as well! Oh, and did I mention I am ACCESSIBLE?! Yep, you can find me on email or Facebook or here if you want to ask me any questions about getting published! Please poke around on this site for more information about writing from home, writing in general, time management, etc. I am excited to grow this blog in the coming months during summer homeschool vacation!

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