Get Your Money Up Front! I’m Glad I Did! By Debbie Elicksen

Published on November 5, 2008

Books are my business. In the last seven to eight years, I’ve helped make people’s books come alive with manuscript editing, project managing books to print, graphic design and layout, and sometimes ghostwriting. So when a fellow member of an association – a friend – came to me to ask me to ghostwrite a manuscript, I didn’t turn him down.

Finding Contacts, Confidence and Cash in an Online Writing Group By Aimee Cirucci

Published on November 5, 2008

When I first caught the writing bug in the Spring of 2006 I had no idea where to begin. Slow days at work were filled googling “writing tips” and “freelance writing” for information and inspiration. All this Internet research led me to varied websites, often with conflicting advice: write what you know vs. write what you like to read; writers must be readers vs. writers must be writers. I was confused to say the least. But as the vast, intricately linked world of the Internet would have it, just when I decided I was wasting my time, I stumbled upon a Yahoo group for writers that would change everything.

Whispers And Warnings For November 5th

Published on November 5, 2008

Yudu.com – Promised to stop spamming WritersWeekly…yet Spammed us AGAIN!
Accurance Group / Accurance.com – Their site claims they “can lead the way through the maze of legislative and technical requirements to legally perform email-broadcasts.”
However, Accurance SPAMMED WritersWeekly!
Bill Cameron / Metromode Magazine / Cameron Ink, Inc. / metromodemagazine.net – Two of four writers report receiving small payments. He still owes the more money…and he’s running a help wanted ad seeking writers on his website! Why is he trying to hire writers when he owes other writers money?!

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