So for your reading enjoyment, here’s some WordCount Q&As I’ve done with writers on a variety of subjects. Happy reading.

Suddenly Frugal’s Leah Ingram – This prolific magazine writer, book author and frugal living blogger explains how she wrote her latest book in eight weeks.

One freelancer’s DIY book publishing success – Colorado-based corporate translator Corinne McKay explains how she self-published How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator and netted $12,000 in two years.

NewspaperDeathWatch.com’s Paul Gillin on online community news – New media pundit Gillin explains why small news ventures, in print and online, are fairing better than their larger counterparts.

One writer’s journey from print to online – Michelle Nicolosi got the online news bug back in the 1990s. Today she’s executive director of the now online-only SeattlePI.com.

Marketing your freelance business in bad times – Keven Malkewitz, a marketing expert and assistant business professor at Oregon State University in Corvallis, says in a down economy, cultivate existing clients, brush up on new skills and increase your marketing efforts.

If you’ve a freelancer with a unique take on the business, a successful blog or an online news venture, I’ve love to interview you for the WordCount Q&A. Contact me: michellerafter (at) comcast (dot) net.

Starting today, the 146-year-old Seattle daily goes online only.

The print edition of the paper folded after Hearst Corp. determined the company couldn’t afford to continue running the money-losing paper as is.

So they pulled the plug. Rather, they plugged in. Hearst officials said they plan to reinvent the paper as a community platform with reporting from a slimmed down team of 20 reporters, smattering of columnists, reader bloggers and features on health, wellness and homes from magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Country Living, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, House Beautiful.

In an age of multimedia news, it’s fitting that the head of the company’s Web efforts uses the title “executive producer” rather than “editor,” a term that’s still associated with old (print) media.

That executive producer is Michelle Nicolosi, my one-time colleague at the Orange County Register and the subject of a Q&A I did last year chronicling her transformation from print reporter to multimedia maven.

It’s interesting to note that even a year ago, Nicolosi had high hopes for online journalism. She said:

In the very near future, we will all be online journalists in some way or another. The outlook for online journalists — those that play well, learn about and care about the online publication as much as we all cared about the paper 15 years ago — is much, much better than it is for people who are dragging their feet, refusing to change the way they work to accommodate the new needs of the online product.

You can read more of Nicolosi’s observations on new media on her blog, Print to Online, although one has to wonder where she’s going to find the time to update it now.

In a blog post to readers about the PI’s transformation, Nicolosi says the online-only SeattlePI.com will “break a lot of rules that newspaper Web sites stick to, and we are looking everywhere for efficiencies. We don’t feel like we have to cover everything ourselves.”

Can a newspaper successfully reinvent itself online? Nicolosi thinks so. At a time when metropolitan dailies have become the equivalent of an endangered species, you can believe editors in newsrooms across the country will be keeping tabs, and praying she’s right.

Here are some developments of interest from around the Web in the past week:

Non-profit journalism isn’t the answer to bailing out money-losing newspapers, writes NewWest.net founder Jonathan Weber in The Trouble With Non-Profit Journalism.

Michelle Nicolosi, assistant managing editor of the Seattle PI website and an ex-colleague of mine from OC Register days, launched a blog to teach old reporters new media tricks called Print to Online.

The same folks behind the @mediaisdying, a popular Twitter feed on media closures, picked something decidedly more upbeat for their next venture. The @mediaishirin feed is a running list of available journalists and jobs. Looking for work? Ask them to add you to their list.

CBS Interactive is getting ready to launch a new personal finance website called MoneyWatch.com in March.

BeatBlogging.org compiled a list of journalists who use Twitter to report stories. Feel free to add how you use Twitter to the list.

HR consultant, professor and blogger Steve Boese compiled a list of 100 HR industry people to follow on Twitter, including yours truly. Follow Steve at @sbjet.

Speaking of Twitter, if you’re finding it hard to tweet and get work done, check out Celine Roque’s story on Web Worker Daily, How to turn productivity into a habit which includes helpful suggestions on time boxing, taking advantage of your body’s natural peak time and rewarding yourself for meeting goals.

This one’s not new, but it was new to me – a list of 100 killer WordPress resources on blog posts, pages, comments, categories, themes and a lot more.