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By writing a guest blog post, you are helping other authors develop their craft and publish their books. You are also recognized as a fellow expert in the writing industry.
If we publish your piece, we will email over 50,000 writers with links to you and/or your website. Additionally, we will promote you across our social media and, whenever possible, we will link to your social media too.
Some samples of great topics:
The Writing Process (Fiction, Nonfiction, and Academic)
Grammar Rules
Writing and Editing Apps and Tools
How to work with an editor
Publishing
What Should You Write About?
We love blog posts that give practical advice to writers with specific instructions. Help authors improve their writing practice or inspire them. Some great posts include:
You are welcome to pitch a selection of topics before writing. We’re interested in all topics related to editing, writing and marketing within the fiction, nonfiction, academic, and research areas. If you would like to become a guest blogger but don’t have a topic, just email us and we’ll share some ideas.
How Should You Write the Guest Blog Post?
Professional, vetted editors experienced in your genre provide comprehensive and personalized editing based upon:
Your writing needs to be excellent! Run it through ProWritingAid and other writing tools before you send it to us!
Your article needs to have a minimum of 500 words.
Provide a catchy title with a strong introduction, a well-formed argument, and a useful conclusion that outlines and repeats the highlights of your post.
Use section headers, numbers, bullets, and other text elements to make it easy for readers to understand your idea quickly.
Please ensure that it doesn’t feel advertorial for your own site/product. It should be USEFUL information that the reader can use immediately with no purchases.
Please include a two-sentence bio at the bottom of your submission.
Include a meta description. A meta description summarizes your blog article. A page’s meta description displays as part of the search snippet. It should have only 160 characters and include the main keyword.
What Should You Include?
Please include a two sentence bio at the bottom of your submission.
Include a meta description. A meta description summarizes your blog article. A page’s meta description displays as part of the search snippet. It should have only 160 characters and include the main keyword.
What Are the Rules?
Boring we know, but there are a few rules you need to follow to get your post published here:
Provide only:
UNIQUE content – This means that this writing is 100% original and not published anywhere else.
High-quality valuable information in your guest post which the writer can use immediately.
Self-serving links that are restricted to the by-line. There should be NONE in the main copy.
Where Should You Send It?
Email your post as a word document to affiliates@firstediting.com or share a google doc to firstediting@gmail.com
Can We Write a Guest Post for You?
We love guest posting on other great blogs too! Please do get in touch if you would like First Editing to share some tips and techniques for editing and writing.
