Media Bistro: Freelance Marketplace
Media Bistro is well known for their writing classes , career advice, industry job leads , and great articles on "How to Pitch" different markets. Today, I took a look at their Freelance Marketplace .…
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1321 postsBig Bad Penguin
I was cruising Boing Boing today because I heard they had a post on a new OREILLY magazine called Make . But I was happy to get sidetracked with this other story: Penguin Putnam's racketeering domain-name…
Read more →The Vanity of an Author...
...this author. OK, so we're usually here talking about the creative and business end of being a writer. But what about the emotional side? Too big of a topic, but here's what I've been thinking about…
Read more →Will Saddam Hussein Read Sand in My Bra?
World Hum has a hilarious post on their blog today about Saddam's potential new hobby as an armchair traveller. Jim suggested a few books for him to open while he's biding his time, and Sand in My Bra…
Read more →Assignment Desk
I just wanted to remind you how cool Media Kitty is. I did a post on it when I first discovered it last year. Since then I've been reading their newsletters, considering their leads, and once I posted a…
Read more →M.J. Rose: Q & A With A Novelist On Her Virtual Book Tour
Today we are fortunate to have mystery novelist M.J. Rose visiting us on her Virtual Book Tour. Author of four previous novels, M.J. has also written a weekly column for Wired.com called E-Publishing Ink,…
Read more →National Geographic Home Collection
Damn they are smart. National Geographic has taken their branding to the living room and we're not talking about another coffee table book. National Geographic Home Collection "This year's line pays…
Read more →WiFi Hits the Open Road
Richard and Angela Hoy are taking their family and business East to West in search of as many WiFi hotspots as possible. WiFi Hits the Open Road on JiWire Read the first hand accounts of testing tMobile…
Read more →Inside to the Big Leaguers
Get your butt down, up, and over to the Bay Area the second week of August! It is going to be a week of non-stop fun for aspiring and veteran travel writers. Meet your heroes such as Jan Morris, Tim…
Read more →Technorati: The Books People Are Talking About
I've been spending some time on Technorati.com . It's a website that searches the "World Live Web". Anyway, it has a section called BookTalk that I thought some of you might enjoy knowing about. You'll…
Read more →Sopranos and Writing
In Sopranos (Second Season), Christopher makes some headway with getting his screenplay into the hands of writer/director/actor John Favreau. One thing leads to another and he starts showing up late at…
Read more →CFP: What Are These?
More "Call for Papers" have come in. Since I am not from the academic world, can someone please explain this to me? Are they looking for some kind of dissertation on their topic, or are they looking for…
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