We did not have a white Christmas so we didn’t get to go tubing and skiing with Richard’s dad and step-mommy. However, it did start to snow about two hours before they were scheduled to leave. Oh well… At least they got SOME snow while they were here!
This Week:
So, you want to be a freelance writer for a newspaper. You’re nosey as heck and you can write under pressure, but you don’t have a masters degree from Columbia.
Once again I turn to you for advice, but this time it’s about a writer I hired to help me with a big project. This is the third year I have done this big project for a client and the third time this guy has helped me. No written contract, but I thought he knew the drill. But no.
I write 15 public service announcements (PSAs) monthly from my home computer, publicity for plays, concerts and other coming events, information collected from local colleges, universities, theatre groups, display ads, and from countless press releases mailed to the station that were written for newspapers, not radio.
Richard’s dad and step-mommy are in town so we’re on vacation this week. Our Boxing Day party was yesterday and we’re going skiing and snow-tubing on Thursday. Whoo hoo!
Happy New Year, everybody!
This week’s Maxism:
Mason (age 6 months) has started speaking! Last week, he said, “Na Na Na Na Na.”
Max came in the room and, when he heard Mason, looked quite surprised. He sat down next to him and responded, “What? What? What? What? What?”
Hugs,
Angie
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This Week:
I stared at the screen in disbelief. I was being offered five bucks per news article? My fingers flew as I typed out a response.
On numerous occasions, I’ve told the girl next door to NOT bring her son over when he’s sick…at least not while Mason is so small. She did just that last week, assuring me he was no longer contagious. Yeah, right…
Hi Angela,
I received a similar scam email targeted at my fine arts business.
It took about three rounds of emails to discover that the person writing me ordering 5 paintings for her parents’ anniversary was trying to pull a scam. It also had the “my shipper will pick up” line. They said they were in England but they definitely had details about my art and my website that sounded credible…for the first few emails.
What they are doing is a more personalized version of the “Nigerian Banker Email Scam”. They expected to give me a check that included their purchase from me plus an amount that they needed to pay their shipper. They then suggested I deposit their check and pay out their shipper with the excess cash they would pay me. Obviously, had I been naive enough to do this, their check would have bounced and they would have succeeded in scamming “the shipping costs” from me.
It’s the penny ante game from the streets of NYC taken to cyberspace. And while I agree one should never give out home information to a stranger, this scam is about money. I was tempted to arrange the drop- off and pick-up and have a police officer waiting at my door! Alas, when I suggested that they pay via credit card instead, the “client” who wanted to buy five small paintings from me disappeared and never contacted me again by email.
Best wishes for a happy new year!
Katy
