It's All About The Questions

How does someone get started as a freelance writer? Is it possible to make a good living as a freelancer? What steps do you need to take to connect with an editor and get a paid assignment? How do you develop ideas for your articles? My guest on this episode has made a good living as a freelance writer for over 18 years in addition to his other writing career as an award winning author of historical fiction. He answers those questions and many more on this insightful episode on getting in the front door of your target magazines and newspapers.   Alan M. Petrillo lives in Tucson, Arizona where he writes full-time for national, regional and local magazines and newspapers, as well as writing mystery and thriller fiction. He's the author of five works on historical military firearms, a non-fiction book on Ice Hockey in the Desert, and three historical thriller/mysteries, A Case of Dom Perignon, Asylum Lane, and Full Moon. He also has contributed work to two mystery anthologies, Medley of Murder, and Map of Murder