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By the latter part of the 19th century, the role of science and technology had made feature writer so profound an impression on men of European culture that a writer of science fiction could be commercially successful. One such writer was the Frenchman Jules Verne, who can be considered the first professional science fiction writer. An admirer of Poe, Verne published in 1863 his first imaginative piece—a sensational and popular novelette aptly called Five Weeks in a Balloon.

Ossington Avenue, for instance, used to be down-and-out, but start-up restaurants and bars are revitalizing the street. We asked local writer Lisa Rundle to report on it for our Scene feature."

If your pictures are good enough and your coverage sufficiently comprehensive, some of the editors in the city which you serve will offer you deals to provide them exclusive service. Should you wish to accept such a deal, make sure that you retain the right to sell your pictures to noncompeting newspapers in other cities. Such outside sales of pictures can add materially to your income. For a list of possible buyers of your work, consult the newspapers listing in Where and How to Sell Your Pictures, by Arvel W. Ahlers, published by American Photographic Book Publishing Co. (see bibliography, page 299). Submit to those which mention spot news pictures as among their needs. When a newspaper reporter is taken off a news beat and made feature writer a feature writer, he is considered to have landed a highly desirable promotion, for a number of good reasons. In the first place, he has been singled out for feature work because he has given evidence of superior writing ability. Further, his work becomes more interesting, more challenging to his skill, his duties more varied from day to day. He has the opportunity to do a type of writing which may lead him into the higher paying magazine field. All of these advantages accrue just as directly, if not more so, to the photographer who advances from spot news coverage to the production of feature pictures. This is true for the freelance as well as for the staff photographer.