Dianne Jacob, Will Write For Food
Useful Tips, Interviews, and Stories to Inspire Food Writers and Bloggers
A guest post by Sonja Overhiser
There’s a mile-long to-do list and a packed inbox to deal with right now. And we have to make deadlines too. These looming responsibilities can strike fear in my heart.
Like you, I have lots to get done! With my husband Alex, I run the A Couple Cooks blog and social media, host a podcast and do recipe development for brands. Now I have [Read more…] about 6 Powerful Ways to Organize Tasks and Make Deadlines
Bonnie Tsui has freelanced for publications for more than a decade, including The New York Times, Travel + Leisure and as a contributing editor for San Francisco magazine. Recently she received an annual award for food writing from the San Francisco Chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier.
That gave me the opportunity to interview her, since both of us became Dames recently. She concluded that [Read more…] about Why it’s Both Easier and Harder to Freelance for Publication
You have a great idea for a story, but finding and attracting an editor to read it is another matter. Often mastheads and websites offer no contact information, and you’re at a loss about how to find someone to pitch.
Enter Devra Ferst. She is a freelance food writer, editor, and cooking teacher based in [Read more…] about How to Find and Attract Editors for Pitching Articles
A guest post by Naomi Tomky
As a freelance food writer, when I saw Dianne end her post positing that, perhaps, food writers are their own worst enemy when it comes to demanding good pay, I knew she was right.
But it’s a deeper problem than that. Not only did her piece on how there’s no money in food writing not match my experience, but in a way, it [Read more…] about Damn Right: I Do Make a Living Writing About Food
A controversial piece about food writing pay popped up online last week, with a response from another editor. I’m pleased that writers are even approaching the topic. But as someone who lives and breathes this stuff, I [Read more…] about Money in Food Writing? Still No.
I’m just back from the Wine Writers Symposium in Napa, where one of the panels I was on covered pitching articles.
I was really roughing it at this conference, if you must know. The event was at Meadowood, a luxury resort, for four nights. We drank or tasted many fine Napa Valley wines both there and at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone. And we feasted on fresh crab, duck, truffles, and waygu beef.
But now back to real life, where I need to diet. And you, dear reader, would like more freelance assignments. On the Symposium panel with me were [Read more…] about 12 Tips for Pitching Articles to Publications and Websites
A guest post by Amelia Levin
No, it’s not Bon Appetit or Saveur or Food + Wine. It’s trade food magazines like FSR, Plate, Restaurant Business, Restaurant Hospitality, restaurant development + design and Foodservice Equipment & Supplies.
Welcome to the world of food trade magazines. These are magazines written for people in the industry (also called business-to-business), not consumers.
This blog post came about after I [Read more…] about 5 Reasons to Write for Trade Food Magazines
