A few Renegade readers were interested in my writing buddy Damon Brown’s tech journalism boot camp last month but weren’t able to make the signup deadline. Damon is offering the course again on November 2…here are the details.
The First Byte: 5 Day Tech Journalism Boot Camp! ONE HOUR PER DAY ONLINE CLASS: November 2nd – …
Oct 20, 2009 Classes, News you can use, Writing
Julia asks: “I’m attending a conference where I’ll be doing one-on-one pitch sessions with magazine editors. Can you give me any advice?”
I have done these one-on-one pitches before. I recommend reading through the magazines and coming up with a few short pitches for each. But at the conference, attend the editors’ workshops/panels, because they’ll give …
Oct 19, 2009 Editors, You Ask, We Answer
My first free teleclass for writers, on Querying with Confidence, was this past Tuesday evening. I think it was a great success! We had 80 writers on the call, and I got some wonderful questions during the call and afterwards in e-mail. I started out with five minutes of greeting callers as they popped on …
Oct 15, 2009 Teleclasses
I recently read a great post by writer Thursday Bram called Why Writers Need CRM and Why I Use Gist. Gist is a free online contact management tool that’s in beta now. It can import your contacts from your e-mail applications, LinkedIn, FaceBook, Twitter, and more.
What’s really neat about Gist is that it brings together …
Oct 15, 2009 Cool tools, Marketing, Query letters
I just finished my first free teleclass for writers, and it was a blast. I was nervous at first and I got kicked off the line once, but all in all I think it was a success. I’ll try to post the recording here in the next few days.
I got some great questions from writers. …
Oct 13, 2009 Query letters, You Ask, We Answer
