Income-boosting resources for commercial writers (a.k.a. copywriters, business writers, corporate writers, marketing writers, etc.)
About Peter Bowerman
The Well-Fed Writer
Since 1994, Peter Bowerman’s professional life has been proof positive that you CAN make a GOOD living as a writer AND author. And through his popular, award-winning books, e-zine, blogs, teleclasses, and coaching, he has guided countless commercial freelancers and self-publishing authors toward that same goal.
Peter is the author of:
- The 2000 edition of The Well-Fed Writer (a Book-of-the-Month Club selection)
- The 2005 companion volume, TWFW: Back for Seconds
- The 2010 quadruple-award-winning 2nd edition of The Well-Fed Writer (which combined and heavily updated the content of BOTH original titles), and…
- The 2021 3rd edition of The Well-Fed Writer.
The WFW books are how-to “standards” in the lucrative field of commercial freelancing—writing for businesses, large and small, and for hourly rates of $50-125+. (For a free report entitled, Why Commercial Writing? click here.)
In 1993, after a 15-year career in sales and marketing, Peter turned to freelance commercial writing. With NO industry experience, NO previous paid writing experience and NO writing background, he built a commercial freelancing business in Atlanta, Georgia, from fantasy to full-time in less than four months.
Peter’s list of past or present corporate clients includes The Coca-Cola Company, BellSouth, IBM, UPS, Holiday Inn, Cingular Wireless, DuPont, American Express, Mercedes-Benz, The Discovery Channel, Junior Achievement, Georgia-Pacific, The Cartoon Network, the CDC, The American Heart Association and many others.
Together, his six self-published books and related products and services provided him with a full-time living for 10+ years, all the how-to detail of which is chronicled in his double-award-winning 2007 release (and its 2014 updated edition), The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living.
He has published over 300 articles and editorials, is a popular speaker and seminar leader, and is a professional coach for both commercial freelancing business start-up and self-publishing endeavors.
Since May 2002, he has been continuously publishing The Well-Fed E-PUB, his critically acclaimed monthly e-newsletter for the commercial freelancing industry.
In 2010, as an offshoot of his self-publishing coaching practice, he introduced The Title Tailor, a specialty book-titling and back-cover copywriting service.
Peter’s books have achieved the following milestones:
The Well-Fed Self-Publisher – Updated Edition (2014)
Winner (Gold Medal): Axiom Business Book Awards (Reference/How-to)
Winner (Gold Medal): IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards (Reference)
Winner (Bronze Medal): ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards (Reference)
The Well-Fed Writer – Updated Edition (2010)
Winner (Gold Medal): Next Generation INDIE Excellence Book Awards (Writing/Publishing)
Winner (Silver Medal): IPPY Awards (www.IndependentPublisher.com) (Writing/Publishing)
Winner (Silver Medal): ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards (Writing)
Winner (Silver Medal) Axiom Business Book Awards (Reference/How-to)
The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living (2007)
Winner (Silver Medal): IPPY Awards (www.IndependentPublisher.com) (Writing/Publishing)
Winner (Gold Medal) Georgia Author of the Year Awards (Self-Help; Overall Winner: Self-Help/Inspirational)
Finalist: ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards (www.ForewordMagazine.com) (Reference)
Finalist: USABookNews Best Books 2007 Awards (www.USABookNews.com) (Writing/Publishing)
The Well-Fed Writer: Back For Seconds (2005)
Writer’s Digest Book Club selection: September 2004
Finalist: Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards (Career)
Finalist: Ben Franklin Awards: Publishers Marketing Association (Career)
Finalist: Georgia Writers Author of the Year Awards (Self-Published, Self-Help)
The Well-Fed Writer: Financial Self-Sufficiency as a Freelance Writer in Six Months or Less (2000)
Book-of-the-Month Club selection: Winter/Spring 2001
Quality Paperback Book Club selection: Spring 2001
Writer’s Digest Book Club selection: July 2000 (second best-selling Featured Alternate in more than two years)
Winner (Silver Medal): ForeWord Magazine 2000 Book of the Year Awards (Career category)
Finalist: Publishers Marketing Association 2000 Ben Franklin Awards (Best First Book)
Honorable Mention: 2000 Writers Digest National Self-Published Book Awards
Join an ongoing conversation! Visit Peter’s blog, The Well-Fed Writer Blog, to hear his latest suggestions and stories about the world of freelance commercial writing, and share some of your own!