Category — Book Reviews

There’s perhaps no better choice for my first book review for this site than Robert Bly’s latest effort to help writers in all fields find more lucrative work, 88 Money-Making Writing Jobs, published by Sourcebooks on the first day of the new year in 2009. Packed with, you guessed it, 88 nuts-and-bolts chapters on how to make money in a wide variety of writing venues, this book should be on the shelf of any writer who wants to make a living with words.

And when I describe the book chapters as “nuts and bolts,” that’s exactly what I mean — Bly’s book isn’t meant to be read from cover to cover so much as to be a reference, in which writers can pick and choose the areas in which their interest lies to learn more. Each chapter provides an overview of the field (such as advertising copywriting), plus info on how to break into the field, how much it pays, where to look for employment, what writers who work in the field actually write, and more.

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