The doors to the Kingdom of Paidalot are officially open and we want to welcome you inside. We're building a kingdom. A kingdom where you determine what you earn and how far your career takes you. After all, you're the boss of you. You deserve to be paid awesomely for the awesome work you do.

We want to create a community culture of freelancers helping freelancers. Everyone needs a little advice or encouragement sometimes, and who better to get it from than those who've been through the same things.


Why should you join the Kingdom of Paidalot? Because, in addition to camaraderie, you'll get the following:


5-on-1 advice anytime you need it from some of the top names in the freelancing field -- Valerie Bordeau of Freelance Writers Academy, Sophie Lizard of 

Be A Freelance Blogger

(and practically everywhere else!), Dana Sitar, author of The Writer's Bucket List, Kelly Boyer-Sagert, whose entire multi-decade career has been offline, just to prove it could be done, and Robert Jennings from The Freelance Rider.


  • As part of your membership, you’ll get a personal one-on one strategy session with Valerie Bordeau. She will help you develop your strategic battle plan and help you laser-focus on the path that is most right for you.

  • Free access to available and upcoming courses, webinars, and audio and video content that you can't find anywhere else. Come learn how to turn your creativity into cash, build your website and portfolio, banish writer’s block, craft attention-grabbing query letters, hone your marketing message and find well-paying clients that will help you have the lifestyle you truly deserve.

  • Gain access to listings of countless literary agents, book publishers and countless other resources to advance your writing career.

  • Exclusive discounts on products offered by our experts in other places.

  • Network with other writers in a fun interactive Forum and private Face book group

  • Get lucrative work from quality clients through exclusive job listings

  • Complete quests, rise up in levels and show off your accomplishments with badges you can show off on any social media site.

The price of membership is only $25 per month.

The Kingdom of Paidalot is the brand new membership site for Freelance Writers Academy. We desire to help struggling freelance writers get the resources and training they need to be successful. The following four experts have joined Freelance Writers Academy to help writers all over the world:

Robert Jennings is a freelance blogger, ghostwriter, copy editor and sci-fi novelist. Robert’s blog is The Freelance Rider where he offers a tough love approach to building a freelancing career. His website body checks writers with reality by smashing false perceptions and getting to the root of freelancing problems and fixing them. Robert has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics Engineering Technology and has been a member of the US Air Force since 2004. He still currently serves in the Air Force Reserve.


Robert knows from experience that freelance writing is not an easy career choice. Since becoming a freelancer, he has hit just about every possible roadblock out there, from lack of clients to lack of motivation.  One of the things he has learned is that there’s about a million people out there willing to tell you how great you are and that you’re doing things just fine. But, that’s not what you need. If you’re going to improve, you need to know what you’re doing wrong. Praise is wonderful, and it’s great for self-esteem, but it does not foster improvement. 



Sophie Lizard is a freelance writer, editor and content marketing specialist whose blog Be a Freelance Blogger shows writers how to make money blogging for hire. She also mentors bloggers one-on-one and in small groups to provide the kind of personalised guidance you can't get from reading alone. 

Her writing has been published on Problogger, Brazen Careerist, Alternet, Lifehack and more than 100 other blogs. She's often called up to revive limp copywriting, ghostwrite corporate blog posts or edit non-fiction books on topics ranging from archaeology to productivity. 

Sophie's obsessed with neuroscience, prehistory, human nature and getting shit done.  She crash tests life at every opportunity and travels the world to meet up with friends and clients, usually with her family along for the ride. To get started on your own freelance writing journey, download her free resource The Ultimate List of Better-paid Blogging Gigs: 45 Blogs That Will Pay You $50 or More.
Dana is a freelance blogger, author of A Writer’s Bucket List, and managing editor of WritersBucketList.com, a blog and community dedicated to the pursuit of happiness through writing. She shares resources, tips, and tools for writers in search of a path through DIY Writing and on Twitter @danasitar.

Dana is also a contributor to the 2014 Writer’s Market, Guide to Indie Publishing, and the Amazon Bestselling guide eBooks Suck! (but they don’t have to). Her writing has been published by Writer’s Digest, Brazen Careerist, Make a Living Writing, SF Weekly, Seattle Weekly, and dozens more writing and career industry blogs and publications.

Her focus is in helping go-getters (entrepreneurs and freelancers) spread their message and build their brand through "artisanal content creation".  Her expertise offers information on how to grow an audience and connect with freelance clients through blogging, ebook/infoproduct creation,and much more.

 

Kelly Boyer Sagert is a professional writer and editor with 23 years of experience, and a member of the prestigious American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA). She has published eleven full length nonfiction books, plus a shorter e-book. She has also contributed material to more than one dozen other books, and has sold thousands of pieces of her writing to magazines, newspapers, online sites, encyclopedias and literary journals.


For four years, she served as managing editor of Northern Ohio's Over the Back Fence. This magazine, which profiled the art, history, intriguing people and fascinating places along Lake Erie's shores, was nominated by Writer's Digest for their "Top 100 Award" in 1998 and 1999. She served as the contributing editor for the Southern Ohio edition of Over the Back Fence as well, and she also edited five trade magazines and numerous business directories, community guides and travel planners for the company.

Kelly is a playwright, with several of her plays being performed in the Cleveland area. She speaks regularly at writer’s conferences and workshops, including at the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) conference in New York City, and at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. She also appeared on an ESPN2 program called “The Top Five Reasons You Can’t Blame the Black Sox.”

Kelly Boyer Sagert teaches writing classes online at http://www.writersonlineworkshops.com and she wrote the FabJob Guide to Become a Freelance Writer, found at http://www.fabjob.com/freelancewriter.asp.