Good Monday morning readers!
Today, I’m shining the spotlight on Lisa Collier Cool, a best-selling author and winner of 18 journalism awards. She’s written more than 400 articles for the Associated Press, Cosmopolitan, Family Circle, Fitness, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s, Hallmark, Harper’s Bazaar, Health, Health Monitor, Ladies Home Journal, Marie Claire, O the Oprah Magazine, Parenting, Parents, Penthouse, Publishers Weekly, Redbook, Reader’s Digest, Self, Woman’s Day, Writer’s Digest and many others.
Lisa also is a prolific author. Her book, Beware the Night: A New York City Cop Investigates the Supernatural (with coauthor Ralph Sarchie), reached #3 on the Amazon bestseller list, and …read more

Good Afternoon,
If I sell an article to a magazine that buys “all rights”, would I then not be able to use that article in a book someday?
Thanks in advance,
Andy
Yes, Andy, “all rights” means just that; unless you get permission to use the article in a book, you couldn’t don’t have the right to use it because you sold all rights.
You could, however, rewrite it and if it’s a substantial rewrite, it’s brand new. How much rewrtiting is substantial is hard to quantify. The best approach is to take a new angle on the subject, or expand it with …read more