Published on August 31, 2005
I receive several hundred spams each week. Most want to show me how to make my male anatomy bigger (even though I’m a woman) while others want to dump a bunch of money into my account from some foreign dignitary who’s on the run from his or her government. The only spam that I usually forgive is spam from non-fiction authors. You see, I’m running an ezine for writers and authors. If they send me a marketing message about their book, I’ll usually overlook it. They could very well want me to review their book (even though we never publish book reviews). But, they may not know that, so I give them the benefit of the doubt.
Published on August 31, 2005
This Week:
- Enjoyed The Newsletter Writing Class!
- Regarding Angela’s article: World’s Worst Book Proposals
- Dealing With Jerks Online
- Regarding last week’s article: Who Cares If It’s Spelled Right?
- Thanks For The Leads!
- Angela Is In Current Issue Of Bottomline Personal
Published on August 31, 2005
While watching the evening news with my husband, there was a segment on NASA’s mission to collide with a comet. I turned to my husband and said, “Oh, I’m interviewing one of the NASA experts on this subject next week”.
He gave me the strangest look, and replied, “How’d you get that?”
“I just asked.”
Published on August 31, 2005
About a year after I started freelancing, I was getting pretty good at accepting rejections. Instead of letting it ruin my day, I would view a “No, thank you” response (as I prefer to call them), as part of the game. Usually, I would take the query, give it another good look, tweak it if needed, and send it out to someone else.
Published on August 24, 2005
Since last week, we’ve traveled through four states, toured a quarry, stuffed ourselves as an ice cream factory and visited the boyhood home of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s husband.
Published on August 24, 2005
worst book proposals and query letters
This week, I’m sharing snippets of some of the worst book proposals we’ve ever received. I hope you get a giggle from them like we did. Yes, these are real!
Published on August 24, 2005
Letters will return next week.
Published on August 24, 2005
More and more in my position as editor of an online newsmagazine I come across what I’m calling e-mail English and spelling. Grammar mistakes are rampant, words are mangled, and punctuation is non-existent. In a recent letter to the editor, I chastised the writer for his use of our language and his retort was, “who cares if it’s spelled right, you know what I mean.”
Published on August 24, 2005
What would be helpful, I think, would be to provide some guidance about HOW to get Amazon’s attention, should we find such problems. Tackling that behemoth is daunting, especially, when one can spend a lot of time just figuring out how to e-mail them in a useful way.
Published on August 24, 2005
A sign on the wall of my high school weight room said “Attitude is essential. A good one will get you far.” As a teenager who knew it all, I rolled my eyes and walked away. It turned out to be one of those lessons I had to learn the hard way.
In 2002, I got laid off from my fabulous online editing job thanks to the .com bust. I freaked out for awhile and, once reality set in, I decided to go solo.
