Katrina asks, “Recently, an interviewee requested an interview be conducted via instant messenger. Ultimately, we conducted a phone interview, but I was left wondering: How would quotes from an instant messenger interview be attributed? Can they be enclosed in quotation marks or should they be paraphrased? For that matter, what about email interviews? The only …
May 15, 2008 Advice, Reporting, You Ask, We Answer
Hilarious! Dennis Cass should be in standup (maybe he is?) … his timing is perfect and he’s 50x funnier than Jerry Seinfeld. My favorite line: “You know what’s funny about the Oprah question … I would have just called you and said ‘I’m going on Oprah.’ I wouldn’t have let you come to me.” [db]
May 14, 2008 Book authoring, Writers
This Monday I turned some assigned recipes to one of my editors. For some reason she couldn’t open up the file, so she asked me to send it again with the copy pasted into the body of my e-mail, which I did with a note asking her to confirm receipt. Later I sent her the …
May 14, 2008 Editors, Observations
Carol asks, “Over the years, much of my freelance work has come from a non-profit organization that is somewhat controversial due to its conservative views and religious affiliation. As a result, I’m hesitant to include this organization in my queries. My question: Is this fear warranted? I wonder if I’m doing myself in by …
May 13, 2008 Advice, Editors, Ethics, Query letters, You Ask, We Answer
Last week I was sitting in a doctor’s waiting room, waiting for my name to be called. After an interminable wait (I was feverish and in a lot of pain), the door opened and the nurse called, “Diane?” Not me. I turned back to my copy of People. No one else in the waiting room …
