This week one of my former students let me know that a story idea she’d generated and worked on in my story idea workshop this fall ran in last Sunday’s New York Times and was generating a ton of reader response. (Woo-hoo! She’s the third student of mine to land an assignment with the Times. …
Jan 2, 2012 Advice, Classes, Editors, Ideas, Magazines, Marketing, Networking, Speaking engagements
If you were listening in on the National Speakers Association freelance writing teleseminar this afternoon, I gave out an e-mail address for our free packet of 12 queries that sold. The address is queries [at] renegadewriter [dot] com . (I’m spelling it out to avoid the charms of evil spambots.) I just tested the address …
Oct 19, 2006 Query letters, Speaking engagements
On Wednesday, July 26, from 10 pm to 12 am ET, Diana and I will be the guest authors at The Writer’s Chatroom. Join us in the chatroom and ask your pressing questions about writing for magazines. We suggest you ask:
* Where can we buy a copy of The Renegade Writer — right now?
* What’s …
Jul 21, 2006 Speaking engagements
After a long weekend of reading Archie comics (Linda) and chick-lit novels (Di), we’re happy to report we had a great time at Canyon Ranch. The people who came to our talks were really nice and asked a lot of questions about freelancing. It’s always a lot of fun to answer questions — nothing worse …
Jun 12, 2006 Observations, Speaking engagements
Diana and I are off to Canyon Ranch tomorrow to give workshops on writing for health magazines. Oh, the awful and terrible life of a freelance writer. We’ll be boo-hooing into our light apple tarts with whole-wheat shells about the suckiness of it all.
Something interesting happened to me this week:
After my husband and I first …
Jun 8, 2006 Advice, Networking, Observations, Speaking engagements
