Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Blogs, Reviews, Memoir, and More, Second Edition

Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Blogs, Reviews, Memoir, and More, Second Edition
by Dianne Jacob
Paperback: 360 pages
Published: July 27, 2010
ISBN-10: 0738214043
ISBN-13: 978-0738214047


Food writing so often appears an enviable profession to the outside world. Jacob casts a cold light of reality on just how difficult making a living in the world of culinary journalism can be. For those yet undaunted by the challenges presented, she provides a practical guide for getting published as a cookbook author, restaurant reviewer, or food magazine writer. She begins with advice applicable to any professional wordsmith: the critical importance of research, fitting an article to a publication's needs, working with editors, and the like. She provides sound direction for those aspiring to restaurant criticism, a job many romanticize but for which very few have the requisite stamina, talent, and discipline. Addressing the sensitive area of remuneration for the writer's efforts, Jacob honestly confronts the role of competition and of limited publication budgets. Her observations and instructions on matters of writing style would well serve writers of all sorts.

Contents

Foreword by David Lebovitz
Introduction
1 What, Exactly, is Food Writing?
2 Characteristics of a Food Writer
3 Getting Started
4 Get Published with a Food Blog
5 Becoming a Successful Freelance Writer
6 Secrets of Restaurant Reviewing
7 The Cookbook You’ve Always Wanted to Write
8 The Art of Recipe Writing
9 Memoir and Nonfiction Food Writing
10 Writing About Food in Fiction
11 How to Get Your Book Published
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Bibliography
Selected Web Sites
Index