Experience in the area Fiction in anthologies from Moonstone Books, Dark Horse Books, as well as stories in CEMETERY DANCE magazine and others. Non-fiction in STARLOG magazine, SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE, the TRIBUNE-GEORGIAN newspaper and more. I have published in excess of 200 articles, columns, and stories.
Organizations belong to Former member, the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) and the Georgia Press Association.
Publications I have written and published over 200 stories and articles including: "Unfinished Business" in HELLBOY: ODDER JOBS, edited by Christopher Golden (Darkhorse Books, 2004); "The Shadow That Shapes the Light" in KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER CHRONICLES (Moonstone Books, 2005); "Fear Itself", in the special Stephen King Halloween edition of CEMETERY DANCE magazine, (2005); also forthoming stories in: KOLCHAK: THE NIGHSTALKER CASE FILES (Moonstone Books, 2006); "Lessons Learned" in THE PHANTOM: ANTHOLOGY I (Moonstone Books, 2007), etc. Additional work published in a variety of magazines and newspapers, including STARLOG, SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE, the TRIBUNE-GEORGIAN, and many more
Experience I can answer most questions about writing and publishing professional fiction and non-fiction, in novel, book, and magazine formats.
Expert: Richard Dean Starr Date: 12/27/2006 Subject: Getting freelance work
Question I do some freelance work locally, but I want to branch out and get freelance work published all over the web and in newspapers across the country. Cold calling isn't working - what do you suggest? I need this for steady income to stay home with an autistic child.
Answer Hi:
Sorry for the delay in responding, I'm working on a film and my time has been severely limited.
Regardless of your reason for staying home, the fact is, freelance writing is incredibly competitive. I would look at the needs of magazines and newspapers that hire freelancers and learn to create engaging queries for those markets.
Once you've struck up a relationship with a publisher and begin getting your work into a particular market, it's much easier to publish more with that market and to gain the initial trust of additional markets.
As I've advised in previous answers, I'd look into interviews as a great way to break into non-fiction magazines (assuming, of course, that a particular non-fiction market publishes interviews in the first place).
