30 Magazine Submissions in 30 Days June Day 6 30Submissions30Days

Here is the post that started it all! I suggest you go check it out first before you take on the challenge. You can start the challenge at any time and each days post leads to the next day! Here is yesterdays post, #5.

Here is the piece I am sending out for today, which is a Saturday. Its also a reprint like Ive been sending and perfect for a September or October issue with school starting, which means FUNDRAISERS! My kids have always been homeschooled but I am not stranger to a fundraiser! Instead of sending my reprints once and then never again, I think sending them annually is smarter. Editors change, publications come and go, opinions and magazine space change.

I suggest you get a good system down that works for you. I use Excel and in one tab have all the publications and what they have used of mine (so Im not sending a magazine something theyve already used and wasting their time), in another tab I have it arranged by article so I can see when each was published and how it did, another tab for financial stuff like invoice numbers and amounts, and another tab for my submissions plan.

So here is my offering to the magazine gods today, and Ill keep you updated on how it fares. Its already been used about 9 times and made $384 but I havent pitched it again as a reprint in years and at this point am realizing maybe I should pitch it to a national magazine.

#6 Rock the Next Fundraiser

And here is your #6 tip/step/help for the month:

In my book I talk about having an author website. Start one! It can be free! (hanging my head in shame that my site is way out of date and needs help ... I must practice what I preach and start one on WordPress for free today, writer friends ... put yours in the comments below so I can visit! Because we are friends I am sharing my attempt at one so far!)

If you want to dust off your ideas and take the challenge with me sometime this summer, comment below and get my book here on Amazon as an ebook or as a print book. My book not only has all the markets you need with contact and pay information, but also embellishes on the tips Im going to be giving you this month to get you going. I recommend the print version (I make the same amount of money either way pretty much) because you are going to want to make notes, cross things out, highlight publications youve worked with, etc.

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