“At Barnes & Noble I stocked up on books and magazines that would help my born-again freelance career: 2014 Writer’s Market, Starting Your Career as a Freelance Writer, and 100 Best Magazine Markets. I walked back to the Farmer’s Market—the one where there are no farmers—went to Short Order and had an Ida’s Old School Burger and a Charlie Brown, a milkshake with 114-proof Old Grand Dad bourbon. With a red pen in hand, I began searching and marking the Writer’s Market for magazines to query. I fl...ashed back twenty-one years, when I was a ninteen-year-old aspiring writer with no clips, scanning the same book in search of a forum to showcase my first story, which would become that magical clipping that would unlock doors of editors throughout the country. How I longed for that first byline. It would finally come in Cycle News, a report on a motocross race in Santa Maria. It felt so good. Countless times did I proudly gaze at my name—“By Michael Lyons.” It did not fling open a new world for me, but still, it was the start.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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