Recently I wrote about how freelance writing of college textbook supplements can boost your college teaching career.
Today I examine two more benefits of having some textbook supplements on your résumé.
Other Writing Possibilities
You likely have other writing interests besides doing work in educational publishing. Having textbook supplements on your writing résumé will make it easier to convince publishers — be they newspaper, magazine, Internet, or book publishers — that you can do quality work and follow a project through to completion.
Get a Job with a Textbook Publisher
Writing supplements is a good way to get to know people in the textbook publishing industry. You may decide you’d like to work for one of the publishers in editorial, marketing, or sales. It really helps when your publishing credits show you have experience in the field, and you’ll also know editors that can recommend you for jobs.
Who has been paid for other types of writing besides textbook supplements? What was it? And if you’ve made the jump from supplement writing to working for a college textbook publisher, please tell us how you did it and how you like it
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It had never occurred to me to write textbook supplements before reading your blog.
I’m a freelance writer who writes articles, e-books, blog posts, reports, ad copy etc for my clients. Half of my work involves ghost writing.
Yours is an interesting niche!
Hello Samar. Thanks for writing.
I love my niche. Writing textbook supplements is a great field. It’s not crowded, there’s lots of work, and the pay rates are quite good.