Product Description

Chock full of insiders' information, this is the first book devoted to providing complete information about the syndication business, systematically detailing how writers and cartoonists can turn dreams of having work syndicated into reality.

Tell-all text addresses every aspect of syndication: creating columns, comics, and features most likely to sell; finding a syndication agency; working with people at a syndicate-or setting up self-syndication; marketing through the Internet or direct mail; attracting international sales; pricing; and invoicing. Extensive resource lists are included, as are sample documents and a clause-by-clause review of a syndicated contract by the nation's top syndication lawyer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #144765 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04-15
• Released on: 2000-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author
Michael Sedge, author of Marketing Strategies for Writers, several other successful books, and numerous magazine and newspaper articles, lives in Naples, Italy.

Customer Reviews

Sell Your Work Over and Over
Multiply your efforts by publishing your work in several periodicals simultaneously. In 185 jam pack pages, Michael Sedge reveals how to find the right syndication agency and how to work with them. He provides submission guidelines and inside tips. You will discover how to submit your work and finally, how to run your business. Complete with addresses, contracts, forms and references.

After filling the initial need, find more needs and use the same fill. But automate your distribution with syndication. This book will guide the way. (...)

Essential for anyone seeking to syndicate their work.
Writers and cartoonists who envision syndicating their productions will find Successful Syndication an essential guide to the process, with chapters telling how to locate and work with syndicates, how to create marketable materials and identify audiences, using the Internet to appeal, and submitting pieces for consideration. Essential for any seeking to syndicate work.

The indispensable guide to acheiving syndication.
If you're serious about becoming a syndicated columnist or cartoonist, this book is for you. Sedge describes the process you will have to go through to make a professional submission. There are sample contracts and practical pieces of advice from professionals in the field.

In addition, Sedge provides resources in the form of various syndicates, both large and small, which could start someone on the path to syndication.

What I liked most about this book was that Sedge did not sugar-coat what syndication is like. Rejection is the norm, there are deadlines, and you have to be dedicated and prepared to put a lot of time and effort into your work. There is also a section on self-syndication for those bold enough to go it alone.

While time constraints and obligations do not allow me to be a full time syndicated writer, this book gave me my start and a good foundation. As a result, I have been published on opinioneditorials.com, Pakistan Today, Middle East News Online and the Los Angeles Times. Dreams do come true! This book will help.