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How to Sell Recipes and Content

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image for how to sell recipes and content blog postA guest post by Jason Logsdon

If you are anything like me, over the years, the biggest focus for your blog has probably been creating content, from product reviews and how-to guides to lots and lots of recipes. It’s something I, and most food bloggers, really enjoy doing. And it is often a blogger’s favorite thing about blogging. So why not sell recipes and content to others, now that you’ve created it?

While I get lots of benefits from all the different types of content I’ve created, the part that has paid for itself again and again [Read more…] about How to Sell Recipes and Content

Are Work-for-Hire Cookbooks Worth It?

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image for work-for-hire cookbooks postBy Amelia Levin

Should you accept assignments for work-for-hire cookbooks?

Therein lies a key question in the cookbook publishing world. Work-for-hire cookbooks straddle the middle ground between traditional and self-publishing. Publishers use algorithms and other research to determine what’s hot and what’s selling now. Then they find authors to write the book for [Read more…] about Are Work-for-Hire Cookbooks Worth It?

Why I Won’t Self-Publish a Cookbook Again

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Image for post about why not to self-publish a cookbook againA guest post by Sara Bir

I’ve written three cookbooks. The second two I did with traditional publishers, but the first one I self-published. Would I self-publish a cookbook again? That was the question I faced last year when I decided to do an expanded version of The Pocket Pawpaw Cookbook, my first book.

Pawpaws are a little-known fruit that grow in less than a third of the country and aren’t sold at grocery stores. They are in season for two months a year, max. I live in Ohio, where they grow abundantly, and I’m totally besotted with them.

So of course I thought this under-the-radar food deserved its own cookbook. But a pawpaw cookbook doesn’t exactly spark a bidding war among conventional publishers.

Still, I decided a slender cookbook devoted to pawpaws was a great idea for [Read more…] about Why I Won’t Self-Publish a Cookbook Again

Promote Your Cookbook with a Satellite Media Tour

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image for promoting cookbook with satellite media tourA guest post by Denise Vivaldo

After your cookbook comes out, the real work begins. You have to sell it. Have you tried a satellite media tour? I’ve done a couple to sell my cookbooks.

If you don’t know about this valuable tool, let me explain. An author or spokesperson gets paid to sell a product in a studio equipped with a worldwide satellite connection. An experienced or polished author can give as [Read more…] about Promote Your Cookbook with a Satellite Media Tour

Writing to Help Struggling Restaurants

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image for post on writing to help struggling restaurantsA guest post by Anna Mindess

Like many freelance writers, I lost work when the pandemic hit. My articles were cancelled or postponed. A magazine that I contributed to regularly went out of business. There was so much uncertainty. I felt useless. But today, it’s different. I feel inspired and empowered. I’ve put myself on a path to help struggling restaurants. This focus has become one of the most satisfying projects I have ever undertaken as a writer.

It started when I saw award-winning cookbook author Grace Young’s Instagram challenge in conjunction with the James Beard Foundation, called #SaveChineseRestaurants. Given the dismal picture of scores of Chinese restaurants closing, especially mom and pop spots, Young asked followers to [Read more…] about Writing to Help Struggling Restaurants

New Book Editor Bryant Terry is Looking for Authors

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image of Bryant Terry, editorYou know Bryant Terry as the author of several vegan cookbooks. He’s also a James Beard and NAACP Image Award-winning chef, and an educator known for his activism to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food system. And most recently, he became the editor-in-chief of a new Ten Speed book division called 4 Color Books. Now he’s looking for [Read more…] about New Book Editor Bryant Terry is Looking for Authors

Paula Forbes Likes Cookbooks that Treat Cooking as Part of Daily Life

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headshot of Paula ForbesDo you know about the enthusiastic cookbook newsletter called Stained Page News? Its author, Paula Forbes, worked at Eater and Epicurious as an editor. She reviewed cookbooks for around 10 years before she started the newsletter in 2018. She moved back to Texas to write a cookbook about Austin food.

Her newsletter has 10,000 subscribers, and comes out [Read more…] about Paula Forbes Likes Cookbooks that Treat Cooking as Part of Daily Life