Two Writers Walk Into a Pub

Dont you want to be able to say that youre in the same pub as me sometime? And NOT be talking about a drinking establishment in England?

Of course Im talking about PUBlications! Regional parenting publications, to be exact.

I LOVE being able to say Im in the same pub in the same month as one of you! Some of you bought my ebook way back in 2009 when I was still pregnant with my 4-year-old Samuel and had taken my first ebook journey. Thank you for taking that journey with me! I had had some success writing for these pubs and wanted to share how I did it, along with all the markets and emails and other fun information I had collected.

Some of you bought my ebook more recently than 2009, newer editions (working on 6th edition now!), and have also had success. I see Rhonda and Christa and Lara. This feels like that old show Romper Room! And Anne and Jan and Kelly and Robin and Carol and Lela. (If Im missing you, by all means call me out!).

I am so proud of these buyers and now writing friends being published, and when we are in the same pub in the same month I get all excited (just ask my husband and kids).

So do you want to be in the same pub as I am some month soon? My reprints from years ago still get published (thats residual income, folks), and I still write new pieces when I find the time.

If you havent grabbed my value of an ebook, now is the time! Its easier than you think to get published and make money writing for magazines.

See you in the pub!

*You can read here on how I got FOUR articles published in Calgarys Child magazine in the Nov/Dec 2013 issue (at $50 a pop!) and I had a lot of good company in there with some of you writers!

C Program using Two argument passing function

C# Program using Two argument passing function

Program Statement:

Write a function which takes two values n1 and n2 as arguments and multiply the n1 by itself n2 times i.e. calculate n1n2 and then return the result to main function which will display the result.

Solution:

 class power_fun
 {
 double x;
 public 
 power_fun()
 {
 x = 1;
 }
 double power(int a,int b)
 {

 for (int i = 1; i <= b; i++)
 {
 x = x * a;
 }
 return x;
 }

 static void Main(string[] args)
 {
 power_fun p = new power_fun();
 int n1, n2;
 double result;
 Console.Write("Enter 1st Value: ");
 n1 = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());
 Console.Write("Enter 2nd Value: ");
 n2 = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());
 result= p.power(n1, n2);
 Console.WriteLine(n1+"^ "+ n2+" = "+ result);
 Console.ReadLine();
 }
 

Why Are You Writing for FREE Part Two Blogging

See Part One here where I kinda sorta rail on Huffington Post Parents online and I rail on YOU for not buying my book and giving getting published FOR REAL MONEY a shot! Lets recap: you cant buy your bottle of moscato with COVERAGE (coverage = lots of people who read a popular website see your piece and MAYBE share it and MAYBE follow you and MAYBE care).

I love blogging. I started doing it around 2006 when my third kid was just a baby nursing and in my arms all the time. It was something I could do one-handed and feel like I was using my brain. But I didnt make any money doing it. I had to figure out a way to make money while also doing the stay-at-home mom gig I loved so much. I mean, really, WHY NOT?

Blogging keeps your mind fresh. I do it because I dont have time to scrapbook anymore and it has become our online memory book of vacations and other fun times. Sometimes, though, I will pop off something I think is pretty damn brilliant and I copy it and paste it into a new document and its like 500+ words and I say to myself,

"Hmm. Thats long enough to submit to the regional parenting magazine markets I have all set up in my email contacts list. Im going to go ahead and publish this on the blog for some lovin for it and at the same time submit it to print and online magazines. And yeah, I think its good enough for the amazing Huffington Post Parents online or some other parenting site that does not pay, but Im going to try to get some money out of this thing."

By the way, why am I writing about this topic HERE instead of pitching it to writing magazines that pay? That, my friend, is a good question and has been on my to do list for a very long time. Lets see if I can hit that goal while the kiddies are out of official homeschool for the summer!

ANYWAY, another great reason for blogging is so you can take a ton of blog posts and turn them into a possible book or ebook. You might THINK you are just blogging but then all of a sudden you realize you have a lot of great posts that all link up and form a coherent idea that could really help people!

So where would you start if you wanted to send a piece to a magazine? Well, um, Writers Market put out by Writers Digest. Its been around FOREVER. And if you wanted to submit to the family and parenting markets? Well, Writers Market sucks for that, sorry. They only have a tiny handful of those markets.

But I have a ton of markets! And they pay! After I realized Writers Market sucked, I spent hours collecting them while my kids slept or nursed on me or played happily and I did it for you! I know a writer who had a regional parenting magazine see her piece on her blog and buy it and she got to leave it on her blog. But why wait for that? Why not go straight to the mags? You can do both if you want! And by "both" I mean EVERYTHING!

This is important, so please pay attention!

You can have a piece on your own blog while you also get it published MULTIPLE PLACES ... Houston Family, San Diego Family, Pittsburgh Parent, Baton Rouge Parents, Treasure Coast Parenting, Western New York Family and more all at the same time or in the same year or whenever they want to use your piece. There. So now you are on your own blog being wonderful YOU and you have $200+ in your bank account on top of it!

I am done lecturing and scolding you. But you have to go here to buy my book, which is available in both ebook and print versions!

This is where I write. At this Formica table. Thats my little blue wireless mouse, and the kitchen is behind me since I seem to spend a lot of time there! I have a corner office with a window (so I can see what the naughty McKids are up to!)

And come back because, as always, I have more to share!

Part Three will ask why you are writing for content mills for 5 bucks an article