Too Lazy to Work Too Nervous To Steal by John Clausen
How To Have a Great Life As A Freelance Writer
Writer's Digest Books, 2001
ISBN 0-89879-997-X Hardbound
Nonfiction / Writing

Reviewed by Beverly J. Rowe, MyShelf.com
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Clausen is a great storyteller, but if you are a beginning writer looking for writing advice, this book does not help. Clausen does give helpful advice on nonfiction marketing for published freelancers, but if you are looking for a book that will let you quit your day job, don't tender your resignation yet. If you are already a published writer, and need to broaden your marketing skills, and learn to promote yourself, here is help for you.

Clausen gives you the motivation to make the commitment, to get out there and hunt up freelance assignments. He advises you to find an anchor client that furnishes assignments on a regular basis, and then to cast the net for a variety of freelance assignments in direct mail, promotions, newspaper and magazine articles, advertising copy and books.

Clausen is a very successful freelance writer that has profited by the ideas that he sets forth in this book, but I was disappointed and felt that the promises on the dust jacket were misleading. Fiction writers will gain very little insight from this book.

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