Monday, December 4, 2023
UPDATES to "The Mother of All Writing Market Books"
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Write for Reader's Digest Magazine -- Submission Writers Guidelines
Check out this post on The Adventurous Writer/Writing Blossoms titled 10 Things You Need to Know About Writing for Reader's Digest. Then see the submission guidelines below. Good luck to you!
Thursday, September 21, 2023
How to Find Out if Your Work Was Published without Your Knowledge
Just type your name in the search bar like this: "Kerrie McLoughlin" (in quotes)
If I find what I call “borrowed work,” I contact the magazine and send an invoice for $50 (unless I know from my own book of markets, guidelines, and pay information that they pay more than that).
Happy searching!
Thursday, August 24, 2023
How to Use HootSuite to Schedule Social Media for FREE!
It didn't take me long to figure out that social media was where a lot of my traffic was coming from for blogging and other writing. I used to write at Bubblews before they went defunct, where my pay was based on views, likes and comments, and I needed to get the word out about pieces I wrote or I didn't make much money.
I knew I couldn't sit on Twitter or Facebook or other social media all day spamming my followers with message after message ... I don't want to alienate my readers!
Solution: HootSuite!
It's free! (unless you want the fancy version that gives you all the reports)
Here's what you do:
1. Go to HootSuite and sign up.
2. Add your FIVE social networks that you send info to the most. Options include Twitter, Facebook, G+, LinkedIn, FourSquare, WordPress. I have a little owl icon at the top of my toolbar in Chrome. I click on him and then choose up to five different places to send my post or message. I usually choose my Facebook fan page for The Kerrie Show for general items because I have that set up to also automatically tweet everything that hits there.
Sometimes I pick other places to send my message, like to my Homeschooling Mommybot Facebook fan page or to the fan page for THIS blog!
3. Find a post you want some love on.
4. Add an image if it doesn't already show up on the HootSuite box.
5. HootSuite shortens the link for you! Then you can tailor the message if you like.
6. Click on the calendar to schedule your message for whenever you want it to hit. I do love, however, the Auto Schedule option, which takes it out of your hands and spaces messages far enough apart so as to not spam your followers, plus it apparently sends messages at optimal times somehow.
Talk about making money while you sleep! You could schedule a bunch of tweets overnight for your worldwide fan base and wake up with a nice amount in your AdSense account or find that affiliate links have been clicked or, like used to happen for me, that your Bubblews amount increased incredibly!
If this post confounds you, just check on YouTube because there are HootSuite how-to videos that show you step-by-step ways to set this up and use it.
Make Money from Home on Fiverr
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Parenting and Family Magazines That Pay ... Over 600 of Them!!! (Print & Online)
I personally love having a print copy of everything and thought you might also like that option, so you can also buy it as an instant download here and print it yourself. This makes it easier to highlight publications your work appears in, cross out email addresses that may change, black out publications that fold, add those lovely Post-It notes anywhere you like, etc.!
I've been in over 160 parenting mags and it's growing ... and there are 50ish new markets in the 6th edition! You can do what I've done. I have no English or Journalism degree ... just parenting knowledge and a love for writing.
My Love-Hate Relationship with Scrivener
While I love how I can organize and move chapters around easily without much scrolling, I hate a few things even more, which are huge time-wasters in my writing career:
- I can't make the screen bigger without making the font bigger like you can in, say, an Internet browser when you increase the screen print size.
- I can't do a search. At least I could never get it to work, so trying to find one magazine market in a sea of several hundred market names was not possible.
- When I compiled it into a Word document so I could do final proofreading, Scrivener randomly smooshed words together and randomly messed up the formatting, which wasted a lot of time. So my text might look like this:
I am also a proofreader on Fiverr and have been since 2013. I used to get so frustrated when book projects would come to me for proofreading as shown above quite often: a writer has put their trust in Scrivener and exported, then sent it straight to me. And when I receive it, it's a formatting nightmare with words smashed together and extra spaces inserted.
The Pomodoro Technique: Focus for ADHD Writers

I'd love to hear about your tips, tricks, and tools for getting things done! And be sure to come back to read my review of Chris Jones' book! You'll love it!
Friday, July 7, 2023
All About Making Money on #Fiverr as a #Proofreader, #Writer and More! #WAHM
I stumbled on Fiverr.com in April of 2013 when I was looking for a way to make money from home online to pay off some mounting dental bills and other things and my husband had FINALLY given in and suggested we get Internet at home.
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Write Timely Articles Parenting Magazine Editors Want to Purchase
As parenting magazine writers, we all need ideas for articles to write about all year long.
Do you feel like you have written everything you have to say on the topic of birthday parties or camp or holidays?
Need some inspiration because your brain has run dry?
Check out this site. Turns out there are not only those obvious and popular things we knew about like Valentine's Day in February, but also things that should be on our radar like Black History Month ... and did you know that February 20 is Love Your Pet Day? What a great time to whip out that piece about whether or not your kid should get a pet. Or maybe you sold it in December about getting a pet for Christmas and it just needs a little tweak and a re-send.
To me, this is writing idea GOLD. I am brainstorming like crazy because the regionals work a few months ahead. Some have their editorial calendar all laid out for the whole YEAR, but I get quite a few last-minute assignments, so it never hurts to have some of these babies in your stable of articles.
Now get your butt in your seat and WRITE! Or, you can try what I do and dictate into your phone while you are driving or walking for exercise or waiting for kids to come out of something. At least get the ideas down and they will start ruminating in your head and turn into an article with a little research, maybe a human quote or two, and a lot of crafting and care.
Thursday, May 18, 2023
Write for Highlights for Children Magazine -- Submission Writers Guidelines
Monday, May 8, 2023
Write for Magazines: The Basics (Book 2 in the Write Anywhere series)
This little red beauty about selling magazine article reprints was a true labor of love. She came about when I realized that maybe not everyone wanted to jump right into Book 1, The Mother of All Writing Market Books.
I squinched up my eyes, cocked my head to one side, put my finger on my temple and thought, Hmmm, maybe some people just want to know how to get started, find out if this parenting and family magazine niche is right for them. Maybe they don't need the regional markets and the national markets just yet. And when that time comes, they can grab THOSE books separately as well.
In Rachel Zoe speak: Options.
Write for Magazines: The Basics includes just the how-to-get-started information from the front of The Mother of All Writing Market Books: 600 Homes for Your Family, Parenting & Women’s Articles, Essays & More (Book 1 in the series). It also includes the Appendices, Glossary of Terms, and the website and book recommendations.
Now available on Amazon as an ebook or print book (almost 100 pages). Also available in my e-junkie shop as an instant download (64 pages size 8 1/2 x 11")!
I'd love for you to join my Parenting Magazine Writers Facebook group as well, where I share all sorts of new and interesting markets (not all parenting related!), and we have discussions about lots of different topics.
Friday, April 7, 2023
8 Steps to Make Over $500 for a Regional Parenting Magazine Reprint
Let me start by saying not EVERY article I write makes this much money. I've written and submitted over 100 parenting magazine articles. Some have sold a total of a few hundred dollars. But today I want to share with you the