We Are Never Too Old to Follow Our Dreams

This is our friend Mary Lou Wilson. She's in her early 90s and has always wanted to write and see her work in print. Jill has known Mary Lou for almost three decades, and they met in an adult education writing course.

Last year, Mary Lou asked if Jill would co-author a series of books based on her life and her family. With that request, she became a client of Creating the Freelance Career. Jill and Mary Lou have been at work on those books, but in the meantime, Mary Lou had an idea for an article. She sent Jill a draft of her idea and they worked together to create a marketable article, researched places that might be interested in it and wrote the query letter so Mary Lou could pitch it. 

NPR's Next Avenue bought the article about gift ideas to buy the elderly person in your life and they published it today. You can read it by clicking here. 

Mary Lou is overjoyed, as Next Avenue not only made the article a feature story, but they are also promoting it on Facebook and in their newsletter. We are excited that we got to help her make her publishing dreams come true. And this success has encouraged Mary Lou to brainstorm ideas for future articles and places to pitch them. Go, Mary Lou, go!