I wanted a work at home job so I signed up for a work at home site. I got an email saying FreelanceHomeWriters.com is a legitimate site. I have not paid anything yet. I’m very skeptical because they are wanting 2.95 to ship a cd, then after seven days 40 dollars or something like that monthly. I was wondering if you know if this is a scam or not?
Like most people, I love making New Year’s resolutions. Each December, I take stock of the year gone by and plan ahead, meticulously making lists for each area of my life. At the end of the 2007, my career as a fledgling freelance writer was starting to take shape. The queries were flying out fast and thick and the acceptances were coming in slowly. 2008, I decided, was going to be my first big year for writing.
As I’ve written here before, we stopped eating most meat several months ago. I eat seafood occasionally, chicken very rarely, and pork and red meat almost never. We started cutting back on meat for three reasons: 1. to lower our cholesterol; 2. to avoid the chemicals and hormones they pump into livestock now and 3. because I read the book Skinny Bitch and my eyes were opened to the horrible things that go on in slaughter houses (not just animal abuse, but also meat contamination). Every time I’ve ever had food poisoning, I’ve been able to trace it to some form of meat.
Sometime last April, I started getting this weird heat sensation on the outside of my left calf…
Sometimes I read stuff online that makes my blood boil. I’m serious. My face gets red and my heart starts pounding because I get SO MAD!
I just read your article about the blogger, Nina Amir, who wants you to write on her blog for free. I could be mistaken, but at a cursory glance of her blog, it seems she’s already used large chunks, if not whole articles from your newsletter to beef up her blog for the month of April.
“I once had an impromptu book signing in a hospital waiting room and sold 18 books.” said author Nancy Robinson Masters.
I need a book publicist. Is there one you can recommend?
In 2004, I wrote The Second Great Depression. No major publisher or book agent was interested, despite my having published two earlier books with a major publisher. The reason they gave was that I was not an economist and I was predicting something radical. So I investigated POD publishing, choosing BookLocker because of their positive reputation and because they were selective in what they published.
Before moving to Massachusetts for a year, and ending up in Maine, we lived in Shoreacres, Texas. While we lived there, our house flooded once during a tropical storm. We only had a few inches of water in the house but the damage was extensive – new floors, new sheetrock, new insulation, new paint…the works! Sadly, during Hurricane Ike, the water from Galveston Bay was over the slab of 100% of the homes there. Officials estimate 39% were heavily flooded and almost 10% were completely destroyed. The city has done a great job of keeping residents informed HERE.
While I see lots of “employment” ads each week asking writers to write for free, I can count on one hand how many people have approached me directly, asking ME to write for free over the past decade…because most people know how I feel about writing for free.
Last week, I ran a link to a video showing Harlan Ellison talking about how insulting it is to ask a writer to write for free. So, I was shocked when the owner of a writing blog wrote to me this week, asking me to write for her…for free. I’m going to share our exchange with you below but I’ll paraphrase her emails since she refused to give me permission to publish them.
