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Do You Know Something Our Readers Would
Like To Know?
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the Escape From America Magazine we are adding eBooks. What is special
about our eBooks is the subjects and the prices. We'll get to the
prices in a minute, let's discuss the subjects of our eBooks first to see
if you'd qualify as one of our eBooks writers. If so, you've got
a chance to make some money, perhaps enough to live on in a foreign country.
(In fact it could work into making a whole lot of money, but we're not
going to make grandiose claims.)
What we are seeking is subject and content.
As anyone who has been visiting our website and reading our magazine knows,
we rely totally on content. We are seeking writers who can write
eBooks that have something of value by way of content. If you've
lived for five years in Buenos Aires you probably know enough to tell someone
how to move there, how to find real estate there, how to find a job there,
where to go, where not to go and so forth. If you've started a hostel
in Guatemala, you can probably tell readers how to open a hostel.
You get the point. You have to know whereof you speak and you have
to supply resources to the reader that would otherwise take them months
to gather the hard way.
Reports like these do not have a mass market
appeal. They appeal to a niche audience, and that is where we come in.
Our subscription base is now just over 170,000 subscribers and we are becoming
the largest magazine of our type in the world. Last week we hit a
record number of visitors for a 24 hour period; with more than 100,000
visitors on the website at the same time. It is clear that
we have arrived.
We are trying to provide as much content
as we can and because we don't charge for our magazine we cannot pay writers
for our articles. eBooks are the obvious solution to providing greater
content and paying the writer for their efforts. |
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rocket science, but it does require that you know your subject. We
stress content and an total understanding of the article subject.
Ideas are what fuel expats! |
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So, you're not a professional writer,
does that mean we still want your report?
If you've been there and done it, we absolutely
want your report!
What we're looking for are ideas, not Pulitzer
Prize writers. Ideas are what fuel our magazine and our website.
Now we want to expand that concept into eBooks for expats. You don't
have to be a professional writer to submit a report that provides important
information - - information that you yourself have learned by having been
there and done it. That is exactly what our readers are seeking, facts
about living overseas from people who've done it, facts about buying a
barge and sailing down the Danube, what it takes to migrate to Argentina,
how to open a business in Prague, buy an island in Belize, get a job in
Paris, start a farm in Mozambique, run an internet business out of the
Dominican Republic, run a rent-a-scooter shop in Mauritius.
What we are seeking is rich content, style
takes second place.
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You don't have to be Hemingway
to write eBooks for us, but you do have to have a rudimentary command of
the english language. We'll edit the reports, but the articles have
to be written clearly enough to be comprehensible.
Money
How do we pay you? We pay you 50%
of everything earned by your report. The reports will be featured in our
new eBooks For Expats section. They will range in price from $5 to
$100 depending on the report. Most of them will be under $25, but
some will be in the $100 range when submitted by professional writers presenting
proprietary information that is not commonly available. Also note, that
many of the new eBooks will be featured first as a $5 special in our magazine.
This allows our subscribers a reward for being our subscribers. Thereafter,
the reports will be placed in our eBooks For Expats section at their regular
price and promoted by links and banners. |
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We want reports and photos on the following
subjects:
Just like our magazine, we want reports
on the subjects specific to our venue.
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Living aboard boats
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Living on islands.
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Living in countries other than the country
of your birth.
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Unusual ways to make a living on the internet
or by telecommuting
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Dual Citizenship
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Foreign Real Estate
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Unusual lifestyles in unusual locations
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Opening businesses in foreign countries
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Overseas retirement
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Offshore Investments
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Tax Exile stories (anonymous bylines okay)
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Homesteading
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Anything innovative or unique - living on
a barge, working in Antarctica, working as a courier, etc.
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