How the Editor of ‘Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living’ Manjula Martin Writes: Part One

The writer and managing editor of Francis Ford Coppola’s award-winning magazine Zoetrope: All-Story, Manjula Martin, paid a visit to the show this week to talk about her new book and “…the realities of making a living in the writing world.”

Manjula is the founder of the website Who Pays Writers?, an invaluable service dedicated to helping freelance writers anonymously share current publication rates and their experiences getting paid.

As managing editor of Zoetrope: All-Story magazine, a title that has won every major story award including the National Magazine Award for Fiction, Ms. Martin sees to the quarterly publication of a stable of prominent contemporary writers and artists.

In her first book, Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living, the editor has collected interviews and “…essays from today’s most acclaimed authors–from Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner, Alexander Chee, Nick Hornby, and Jonathan Franzen…” on the intersection of writing and commerce.

The New Republic said of the writer, “Manjula Martin has done more than perhaps anyone else to shed light on the financial nitty-gritty of the writing profession.”

Her writing has also appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Pacific Standard, Aeon Magazine, Hazlitt Magazine, The Awl, SF Weekly, The Rumpus, and many others.

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In Part One of this file Manjula Martin and I discuss:

• Why the school of real life is so valuable to writers
• How an unpaid internship led to a dream job
• The revenge of analog and print magazines
• How a Tumblr became an inspiring collection of stories on the writing life

The Show Notes

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• How the Editor of ‘Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living’ Manjula Martin Writes: Part Two
• Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living
• ManjulaMartin.com
• How Publishing Consultant, Educator, and Author Jane Friedman Writes: Part One
• Who Pays Writers?
• Zoetrope: All-Story Magazine
• three cents newsletter by Manjula Martin
• Manjula Martin on Twitter
• Kelton Reid on Twitter

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