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Welcome to the very first Wordpreneur Carnival!

What is it? Here, let’s have the good old Wikipedia explain it to us:

“A blog carnival is a type of blog event. It is similar to a magazine, in that it is dedicated to a particular topic, and is published on a regular schedule, often weekly or monthly. Each edition of a blog carnival is in the form of a blog article that contains permalinks to other blog articles on the particular topic.”

Simple. And, since you’re here on Wordpreneur, the “How to Make Money Writing” site, it would make sense then that the Wordpreneur Carnival is all about posts and articles elsewhere on — ta da! — how to make money writing!

I’ll be doing this once a week on top of my regular posts. Except for this inaugural edition, which I put together to give you all an idea what to expect (and so submitters can have an example of what I’m looking for), I plan on releasing a new edition every Saturday. This means that our next edition will be coming out Oct. 20.

Let’s begin!

If you can only read one entry in this edition, make it this one: How to Make Money With Your Blog by blogger Steve Pavlina. Yeah, the title’s OK and nothing special. To us wordpreneurs, however, Steve is. You’ll see.

Not necessarily better but more comprehensive is Problogger Darren Rowse’s How Bloggers Make Money From Blogs. The post’s a couple of years old, but still very much with it, covering all the different possible income streams bloggers can tap.

This is a must read for all you newbie “no one knows who you are” freelancers: How to Build Your Own Buzz by Sharon Hurley Hall in her Get Paid to Write Online blog.

Writing biz promotion doesn’t have to be expensive, as you’ll soon learn from Grow Your Writing Business blogger Yvonne Russell’s Top 5 Free Ways to Promote Your Writing Business.

According to Fern Reiss in How to Publicize Your Children’s Book in the Publishing Basics blog, it is easier than publicizing adult novels. Hmmm.

Let’s cap this edition off with this: For all of you who think being a freelancer is all nice and rosy, here are Write from Home blogger Amy Derby’s 5 Complaints of a Freelance Writer Who’s Been There and Burnt That Bridge.

Hope you found at least some of these as useful and informative as I did. See you next edition (Saturday, October 20)!

SUBMISSIONS: Have a blog post or website article you think would be perfect for inclusion in this Wordpreneur Carnival? Simply contact me and send the URL. It’s that easy!

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