For the second year in a row, Dec. 1 rolled around and I’m slammed with work. I’m not complaining. With the economy and the publishing business in a shambles, it’s a nice problem to have. And it’ll help me pay for Christmas. But still, as a working parent, it’s a challenge to juggle the work […]
WordCount recap – weekly news from the digital media biz
News you can use from the online news business: Seal Beach Daily – Take two former reporters, add Web design and blogging skills and you’ve got the Seal Beach Daily, a virtual daily newspapers covering the neighborhoods in and around Seal Beach, a beach town that straddles the border of Orange and Los Angeles counties. […]
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving. If you’re reading this on Thanksgiving, you’re spending too much time online. Walk through the leaves. Watch a football game. Eat a drumstick. Enjoy the day.
The WordCount guide to queries
Long weekends like the four-day Thanksgiving holiday that starts tomorrow when nobody’s in the office are great times to work on projects you can’t get around to when you have story deadlines and editors breathing down your neck, projects like crafting queries to new or not so new-to-you publications. To help get the query juices […]
Road trip
I’m on the road today, visiting editors in southern California and then taking a few days off. While I’m gone, please enjoy this rerun of some popular WordCount posts about visiting and working with editors. What editors want from freelance writers 4 ways to bring good karma to your freelance writing business Top 10 qualities […]
Guest post on The Golden Pencil
I’m the special guest blogger today over at The Golden Pencil, a b5 Media blog for freelance writers that’s run by host Jenny Cromie, who recently took over the gig. My Q&A covers a variety of topics, including how I got into the freelance business, how the current economy is changing the freelance landscape and […]