You Can Write Greeting Cards Review
You Can Write Greeting Cards by Karen Ann Moore Writer's Digest Books, March 1999.Trade Paperback, 122 pages.
ISBN: 0898798248
Writing greeting cards is a highly specialized area in the writing world. You have to know what the greeting card companies are looking for, as well as the methods for submitting your work, which range from index cards to email. This reference by professional greeting card writer Karen Ann Moore provides instruction on how to write for the greeting card industry, and how and where to submit your greeting card verse. Coverage in the book includes an overview of the greeting card industry, what it takes to be a greeting card writer, what makes a good greeting card idea, rhymes, cute and clever cards, humorous cards and how to approach greeting card publishers. Other information provided in the book includes a workbook with exercises to improve your creativity, information on how to keep up with trends in the industry, inside scoop on the greeting card business and examples of greeting card verse.
You Can Write Greeting Cards is an excellent introduction to the beginner who is interested in selling his or her greeting card ideas.
Ordering information: Amazon.com.
Return to the May 1999 issue of The IWJ.