We genuinely care about our readers, and everyone who has helped BookLocker.com and WritersWeekly.com become successful all these years. We never want to be indirectly responsible for anyone suffering abuse at the hands of an editor…
Editors are busy folks. They don’t mean to, but they sometimes forget about things they receive in email. A little tap on the shoulder now and again can help get your submitted work…especially if your nagging is humorous!
Being able to quickly and effectively adjust the length of your articles will help you sell more of your work!
Sometimes competitors and others test BookLocker.com to see if we really do screen manuscripts that we’re considering for publication. Yes, we absolutely do! We rejected the poetry book written by the dog of an author. That was memorable. There was the…
“Can I use interviews and profiles I’ve written, and turn them into my own book, or do those pieces belong to the magazine?”
Amazon delivery driver caught stealing package…by front door camera NOT made by Amazon; Couple sues (and loses) after part of their social security numbers published; Minnesota Bride Magazine bankruptcy; and Stupid bloggers who were arrested in Iran have been freed.
In this piece, I explain how I used the power of upfront, face-to-face communication (the kind that many of us have forgotten) to land a four-figure gig at a networking conference.
“It’s my number and, of course, I gave it to them, after receiving it from the IRS. But, they have steadfastly refused to tell me what the number is…”
For 22 years, I was a writer for a family-owned weekly community newspaper. I covered high school sports, and wrote about local history, new businesses, artists, writers, actors, musicians, hobbyists and collectors. As our editor used to say, “We can’t make too big a deal about anything.”
And then, suddenly, it was over…
I am often asked by readers, and even friends, when and why I decided to become a writer. It came very early to me! You can read exactly what happened here…
