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by Joy Strange
So many noob sex writers don’t understand one of the basic concepts of marketing yourself as a writer–any kind of writer–and as a result, they fail miserably in their first year or so to land gigs in their chosen genre.
You might think I picked the photo for this post based on the sex appeal factor, but actually I chose it for a specific reason. Our swimsuit model here is going to school you on how to put together a sex writer’s resume and cover letter and make yourself every bit as appealing as she is.
When you try to land a freelance writing gig in any genre, whether it’s sex writing or not, the editor wants to know how well you can write in that genre. The editor really doesn’t care that you had a column about video games in the college paper, or that you can write a how-to business plan for e-tailers.
A swimsuit model shows her portfolio to get a gig in the pages of Sports Illustrated. She doesn’t whip out her GPA, her list of sororities and her hobbies. She shows how she struts her stuff in front of the camera. That’s all.
Sex writers, take a lesson from our swimsuit model. Strut your literary stuff and don’t bore the editor with your non-sex writing crap…unless it’s somehow relevant to the gig at hand. Are you trying to sell an article about the financial pitfalls of being a freelance sex writer? Then by all means whip out those finance writing clips and include ‘em.
But don’t try to sell me on your sex writing with unrelated material that has no bearing on what you’re trying to sell right now.
I know what some of you are saying now. “How can I get publised as a sex writer without any sex writing clips?” And that is another topic for another post. Stay tuned.
Image courtesy Piotr Bizior http://www.bizior.com/
