How to Become A Freelance Outdoors & Nature Writer

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The author of six previous books and well over 1,000 magazine articles, W.H. “Chip” Gross has been a freelance outdoors and nature writer/photographer for more than 40 years. In How To Become a Freelance Outdoors & NatureWriter: Getting Paid To Go Fishing, Birding, and Other Myths, he humorously reveals the many publishing secrets he’s learned from both sides of the desk, as a writer and as an editor:

  • What’s a saleable story idea?
  • Approaching magazine and book editors
  • Researching, writing, and submitting the
  • magazine story
  • Writing the outdoor book
  • Outdoor photography: Illustrating your writing

“This is more than a writing book,” Gross said. “It shows both beginning and experienced writers the basic and advanced techniques of how to get published, taking an outdoor magazine/book idea from concept, to writing, to publication, to payment. It’s not necessarily the best writers and photographers who regularly get their stories and photographs published. It’s the best writers and photographers who are also the best marketers that regularly get their stories and photographs published. I’ll show you how…”