How to Become a Food Writer with Kate Parham Kordsmeier

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Kate Parham Kordsmeier is an Atlanta-based freelance food and travel writer and recipe developer for more than 100 publications. She’s the author of the cookbook Atlanta Chef’s Table: Extraordinary Recipes from the Big Peach and the founder of Root + Revel, a food and wellness site devoted to natural living.

In this interview we talk about:

- Kate’s beginnings and how she chose food as her niche.
- Building a personal brand in freelance writing.
- Confidence charging as a freelance writer.
- Effectively using a website to attract work.
- Working with photographers and batching work for efficiency.
- How rejection plays into Kate’s work and how she deals with it.
- How Kate comes up with her ideas and how she pitches an idea to a magazine editor.
- The lead time involved in writing articles.
- The challenges involved in putting together a cookbook, and the pros and cons of working with a traditional publisher.
- Using fiction skills in non-fiction writing.
- Kate’s experience using food to heal health issues.