{"id":10635,"date":"2019-07-23T16:42:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T20:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10635"},"modified":"2019-07-23T16:42:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T20:42:29","slug":"and-there-goes-writers-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10635","title":{"rendered":"And there goes Writer’s Market<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

After almost 100-years of publication, it appears that Writer’s Market<\/a><\/i> — a sort of Yellow Pages for freelance writers — has folded.<\/p>\n

The Web site was there just yesterday; I know that, because I stopped by to see whether the publishing news feed was being updated. Now, there are just links to bookseller Web sites and no links to site content; it looks like one of those barren, abandoned URLs that is for sale.<\/p>\n

This saddens more than surprises, I suppose. Not only is there a steadily diminishing number of venues for freelancers, even honored, well-known names pay so little now that it’s hardly worth the effort to introduce onself. Even so, Writer’s Market<\/i> is a venerable name that I, and a great many others, used profitably for a long, long time.<\/p>\n

I guess there is no avoiding that the traditional publishing infrastructure is gone, now, and we are all our own brands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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