About 48 hours after I sent out a press release for my book through a major distribution service, I was thrilled to find two calls from TV show Special Guest Coordinators on my voicemail…
As a children’s educational writer, I write for K-8 curriculum publishers, producing books, workbooks, test assessment materials and activities for both students and teachers. I am not a teacher, but that has not been a problem. Most educational publishers simply look for good researchers and writers. Here’s what I did – and what you, too, can do – to get started…
We all recovered from the Christmas Stomach Bug. All but four of us caught it by the time if flew from our house and, undoubtedly, into somebody else’s.
This week, I wanted to show the you gift I needle felted for my mom for Christmas. I couldn’t show it to you until now because she’d have definitely peeked…
Not sure if you caught this news yet or not but, according to Publisher’s Weekly, some publishers have suspended shipments to Borders after Borders suspended payments to them. Borders is apparently saying they now have new funding, that they want to meet with the publishers, etc. but I can’t help but wonder why any investor would throw money at that sinking ship…
Dear Angela,
I just wanted to take a moment and thank you for all the great newsletters you have sent to me over this past year (and many years past). I am grateful for the information they contain, the jobs they list and the thoughts they inspire. Thank you, too, for sharing yourself and your family with me through your news from the home office and your willingness to correspond with me when I have written you. I am glad to know you even though at a distance.
May God bless you and keep you as we end this year and enter the next.
Sincerely,
Sarah Clark
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Hi Angela,
I just wanted to tell you how much I love WritersWeekly. I’ve been visiting for a few years now and I always find useful and interesting information here. Keep up the great work!
Sincerely,
Lori G.
As I took my son for a walk through the neighborhood recently – the winter weather temporarily rising from the 20s to the 60s – there must have been a hundred discarded Christmas trees lining the curbs. Possibly enough to heat the entire city for a day! It made me realize something: the holidays are definitely over…
At 40, after several years as a stay-at-home mom, I returned to college to complete my associate’s degree to make myself more marketable when I returned to the workforce. A medical secretary by default, most of my courses were business related. However, one of my electives, Newspaper Research and Reporting, put me on a new and unexpected career path…
Caleb was sick on the 23rd with a stomach bug. I obsessively santized the house and, over and over again, but to no avail. Max woke up with it on Christmas morning. I took pictures of him opening his presents in bed. By mid-afternoon, Frank was sick and Rita and I succumbed by bedtime. On Sunday night, Zach was down for the count and Kimia (Caleb’s girlfriend) sent me a text that she had it as well. Nobody has gotten sick since then so we are hoping everybody else in the house is immune. We had to postpone our Boxing Day party, of course.
As I’m typing this on Monday, we are getting the big blizzard that’s all over the news (14 inches by noon) and Ali is cooking a gourment meal for us in the kitchen while the adults are watching comedies in the living room, next to the Christmas tree.
The Boxing Day party will be tomorrow and we’re looking forward to a rip-roarin’ good time!
This week’s Maxism:
“Does Santa put hidden cameras in kids’ rooms to see if they’re naughty or nice?”
Hugs to all!
Angela
Below is a recent email I received. I have removed identifying information for obvious reasons. I’ll call this victim Regretta.
Dear Angela,
Three years ago, I started a blog and website describing my talents as a writer. They were both under one domain name.
All this setup was done by my best friend. He had handled all the money matters and setup as he is a technical guy and worked as a web administrator.
We were also involved emotionally and I trusted him blindly…
The email went on to say that the “friend” hadn’t worked on the site in two years, and didn’t make any updates, but kept encouraging Regretta to grow the blog. He was earning Google Adsense money on the blog and he was sharing the revenues with her.
By now, you know where this is going…
That inadvertent email you received did not surprise me at all. Recently, I was chatting with the clerk at (a large bookstore chain) while she rang up my order. I mentioned I had never returned a book and wondered what their policy was on returns in case my gift recipient already owned it, adding, “…of course, I’d never return a book I’d actually cracked open.”
At this point, the store manager glanced over and said, “We appreciate that. Unfortunately a lot of people read books and return them. They treat us like a library…”
