Hey Travel writers, Hemispheres, the inflight magazine for United Airlines, is a great outlet for your writing: 3 Perfect Days “The perfect travel planner with a fully searchable database to find exactly what you need to know about wherever you’re going.” Roving Gourmet “Knowledgeable resident writers offer their selections of the best restaurants in major […]
» Read more...Month: March 2003
The Benefits of Name-building Part I
Lately I’ve been asked why I think name-building is important for writers, so I thought that I’d address it here. As always, this is just my opinion. There are a plethora of ways that a writer can build their career. Based on my experience inside a publishing house, I learned that authors who were established, […]
» Read more...Larry Habegger
Yesterday morning I asked Larry if he’d write up a short summary of his evening with Pico Iyer and Don George for a guest post on Written Road. Knowing how busy he is I didn’t expect him to oblige. But midday I got an email from him jokingly cursing me for asking him to do […]
» Read more...Props for Written Road
What goes around comes around. Last week I helped an author on my WorkforWriters listserve. It turned out she liked this blog and recommended it to her newsletter list as one of her “picks of the week.” Have your heard of Freelancing4Beginners? Well, check it out because Christina is doing great things to help writers […]
» Read more...Good Press is Great Press!
How come that as of right now, Thursday night at 10:39pm, none of my friends with blogs have blogged about the great press they got in yesterday’s Christian Science Monitor. Rolf, BootsnAll, World Hum—come on guys! No need to be bashful, tell the world you got good press. Backpackers: A Community That’s Always On the […]
» Read more...Blog from an Iraqi in Baghdad
Now this beats watching the war news on TV. Wow. Where is Raed? There are also several other blogs to note in his sidebar.
» Read more...BEA 2003: Autographing for Sand In My Bra
I've been accepted into the BEA signing program. I had no idea that I had to pass some kind of rhetoric, but I guess I did. Turning in the paperwork on time seems like trial enough to me, but Krista, our publicist at TT, found out yesterday that we were “accepted.” Thanks for the hard […]
» Read more...So Many Reasons To Write
I’ve known I was a writer since those bad love poem days of jr. high school. Or even further back when I bought my own journal at 12 and started confiding to “Diary” that I had to wear a bra today, and hoped nobody could see it through my shirt. Scandalous topics like bras, periods, […]
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Last night I worked on coding some of the content for SandInMyBra.com which will be launching fairly soon. That makes me sound like some kind of programmer, but really it means I know how to push a few buttons like you would make a word doc bold or italic. Very light stuff you don’t want […]
» Read more...WordSpy.com
Just for fun…. WordSpy.com The more time you spend on this site, the better your writing will be.
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