January 8, 2007 is a day that will someday be celebrated as the most wonderful of all time, for two reasons:
My January 8 eight-week e-course on getting published in magazines will be the last one offered at $198 for the Premium version and $99 for the Basic (no e-mail support) version. After that I’ll be …
Nov 30, 2006 Classes
Victoria writes: “I have a pretty simple question – what do you guys recommend as the best book for info about writing a non-fiction book proposal? There are so many out there, it is hard to know which one to spend your money on and to use as a formal guide while constructing your proposal.”
Good …
Nov 29, 2006 Advice, Book authoring, You Ask, We Answer
Today Lifehacker linked to an article in the New York Times about e-mail sign-offs — you know, those words and phrases like “Sincerely” and “Best regards” that we use to close e-mail messages. The article suggested that “Best” is a brush-off. Many Lifehacker commenters feel that “Cheers” is cheesy. “xoxo” was deemed inappropriate.
I use “Cheers” …
Nov 29, 2006 Personal yammerings
A couple months ago, my writing buddy Beth sent me some cool tabbed folders from Punch Studio. I *love* them and looked around at local office supply stores for more, to no avail. This morning, I met my friend Deb for tea/hot chocolate (and contraband Dunkin’ Donuts!) and she gifted me with yet another set …
Nov 27, 2006 Cool products, Cool tools, Organization
If you’re like us, you use e-mail to communicate with your editors 90% of the time. But it can be hard to know how to present a professional image when no one seems to agree on the rules for e-mail. Are smileys okay? How long should a sig line be? How quickly do you need …
