One of the best places to get yourself published ? even if you are only a novice writer ? is in specialized trade magazines. These are publications that may come out weekly, monthly, or every two or three months and they target a specific type of business audience. For example, there are magazines dedicated to contractor trades, to professional jobs, and to things like business management, hiring, or organization.



One magazine, for instance, is written for those who work with concrete, and it includes everything from product reviews to articles about how to market concrete work done by the professional. If you install concrete counter tops, know how to lay concrete building foundations, or are an engineer who works with those who construct concrete bridges, this is the kind of magazine that would welcome your participation as a writer with some technical or work experience. Other magazines are specific to crafts ? there are those focused on weaving, others that deal with raising and training horses, and those that talk about how to make money from home by doing small creative projects.

One of the fastest growing sections of this kind of reader-specific business is the technical area. Technical writers are those who have specialized training in high-tech fields, and if you know how to do this kind of writing, you can get paid a high salary, because there are so few people who have such expertise and also work as freelance or in-house magazine writers. For example, if you have a background in medical science you can find work writing for magazines that cover new medical technology breakthroughs, new pharmaceutical medicines, or new changes in how healthcare is administered and managed. Or perhaps your area of expertise is in the building trade, and you understand how to explain technical aspects of plumbing or electricity to those who read the trade magazines to learn more about those areas of interest.

There are literally hundreds of thousands of different kinds of trade magazines, and if you have a particular talent that you would like to share with others through written articles, do some research and find the magazines that cover your particular topic or topics. If you check with the editorial department of these magazines they will usually be happy to send you their guidelines for submitting articles. Then all you have to do is write about something you know and enjoy, send it to the appropriate magazine, and you are on your way to a career as a trade magazine journalist.