The Write Life

The Write Life is a specialist digital publication focused on helping writers improve their craft, navigate publishing, build sustainable careers, and earn money from writing-related work. Alexis Grant launched the site in 2013 after building experience as a writer, editor, entrepreneur, and content strategist. The original concept was to create the kind of practical, supportive writing community that Grant wished had existed when she was developing her own career. The site subsequently grew into a substantial content business, publishing more than a thousand articles, ebooks, webinars, and other resources. Grant sold the business in 2021, and The Write Life later became part of the Selfpublishing.com platform of writing, publishing, education, and author-support brands.

The current site retains the original editorial mission but operates within a more commercially integrated publishing ecosystem. Its navigation is organized around freelancing, blogging, publishing, traditional publishing, self-publishing, craft, marketing, and resources. The content is primarily evergreen and instructional rather than news-driven. Typical articles explain how to find freelance writing jobs, pitch editors, set rates, create a writing portfolio, write book proposals or synopses, obtain ISBNs, self-publish books, market an author platform, use writing software, and evaluate courses or services for writers. The publication also features interviews, success stories, reviews, list-based resource articles, and practical guides aimed at readers at different stages of their careers.

Editorially, The Write Life is accessible, encouraging, and highly action-oriented. Its contributor guidelines emphasize useful, practical advice that can help readers make measurable progress. The site has historically sought stories based on personal experience, advanced freelance strategies, advice from editors and literary agents, distinctive blogging ideas, publishing guidance, product reviews, and case studies about writers generating income or achieving publishing success. This gives the publication a service-journalism character: it is less concerned with breaking publishing news than with answering specific questions and helping readers take the next step. The strongest content tends to combine first-hand experience with actionable processes, examples, templates, checklists, and explanations of industry terminology.

The site’s notable features include extensive evergreen guides, freelance-writing job and income resources, self-publishing explainers, reviews of writing courses and tools, curated lists of opportunities, downloadable ebooks, newsletter-led resources, and pathway content that directs readers toward relevant material based on whether they are freelancers, bloggers, creative writers, or authors. Its resource pages are commercially significant because The Write Life discloses that selected tools, courses, and services may generate affiliate commissions. The site states that resources are reviewed and vetted by its team, although its relationship with the wider Selfpublishing.com ecosystem means readers should distinguish independent editorial advice from commercially affiliated recommendations.

The publication’s reputation is rooted in its long operating history, specialist focus, and practical usefulness rather than mainstream newsroom authority. Historical evidence shows that it once operated at a substantially higher publishing cadence, with a case study reporting output of up to five articles per week and approximately 460,000 monthly views during an earlier growth phase. The current homepage shows a more intermittent publishing pattern, including a cluster of weekly articles in June 2025 and a continued reliance on older evergreen pages. The supplied SEO metrics indicate meaningful authority for a niche site: Moz DA 57, Moz PA 55, Ahrefs DR 71, approximately 100,968 backlinks from 3,441 referring domains, and a zero Moz Spam Score. At the same time, the supplied organic estimate of approximately 10,134 monthly visits and 2,720 ranking keywords suggests that its current search visibility is respectable but narrower than the historical audience scale and smaller than major publishing-industry competitors.

For digital PR and link-building professionals, The Write Life is most valuable when a campaign has a genuine connection to writing, freelancing, publishing, creator businesses, author marketing, education, productivity, or book production. Original research about freelancer income, author economics, publishing trends, writing tools, creator careers, or reader behavior could be relevant if packaged as useful insight rather than a promotional announcement. Expert commentary may also work when the expert can provide credible, practical advice for writers. Brand mentions are possible in reviews, resource roundups, tool comparisons, and relevant instructional articles, but editorial relevance is essential.

Routine link inserts and generic guest-post campaigns are poor fits. The site’s current contributor page explicitly states that submissions are closed, even though older versions of the guidelines describe a selective pitch process. The publication has also historically offered paid advertising products, including display advertising, newsletter sponsorships, sponsored blog-post blurbs, Twitter sponsorships, and takeover packages. Its older media kit described a one-sentence sponsored blurb with a link placed at the top of a relevant article and stated that the placement would live indefinitely. However, that media kit dates from 2015 and should not be treated as proof that the same commercial inventory remains available today.

The Write Life compares most directly with specialist resources such as Make a Living Writing, Freelance Writers Den, Jane Friedman’s publishing education platform, The Creative Penn, Writer’s Digest, and selfpublishing.com itself. It is less authoritative than major trade publications for breaking industry news, but it is more directly focused on practical career advice and monetization for writers. Its strongest market position is as an accessible, search-oriented service publication embedded in a broader author-education ecosystem. For outreach, credibility, topic fit, and usefulness to the reader matter substantially more than simply offering payment or a prewritten promotional article.