Rachel Weingarten (middle in photo) is an author, freelance writer, marketing maven, and all-around cool person. Recently, the chichi New York City department store Henri Bendel ran a huge promotion surrounding her new book Hello Gorgeous! Linda interviewed Rachel to find out how scored this coup, how she markets herself and her work, and how …
Jul 31, 2006 Advice, Writer Q&A, Writers
This week I bought three magazines at Borders I may be interested in pitching. Total cost? $14.48. Ouch! To riff off Leona Helmsley, only fools pay newsstand prices, but I really needed these magazines, and I consoled myself that I’d be able to expense them on my taxes.
I don’t think I’ve ever read any money-saving …
Jul 29, 2006 Magazines, News you can use
I am a fan of Anthony Bourdain’s writing, as well as his food shows, so I eagerly dug into his Salon article about his thwarted experience filming in Beirut.
The surprise, for me, came at the end. My younger brother, Matt, is a Marine who’s stationed in the Mideast. We just found out a couple weeks …
Jul 28, 2006 Personal yammerings, Writers
This week I’m re-reading Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen. OK, I’m fibbing. I’m attempting to read it for the 11th time. Not that it’s boring or poorly written; there are paragraphs in there I want to etch on the inside of my eyelids! Everything he writes makes perfect sense. …
Jul 27, 2006 Advice, Cool products, Organization
We writers always talk about how to turn off our inner critics. In my opinion, completely turning off our inner critics is how we churn out a lot of crap.
True, some of us have inner critics that are so harsh that they make writing truly painful for us, and even keep us from getting anything …
