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Beat the New Year’s Cash Crunch – Rev Up Marketing Now for Ongoing Pay! By Sonya Carmichael Jones

Published on November 2, 2005 diversify your writing income

The holiday season is synonymous with big spending. For writers this means assignment heaven. From the hospitality industry, to fashion, to auto dealers, real-estate firms, and even banking, businesses are rushing to promote new products and services in time for holiday splurging. The good thing is that a lot of these promotions carry over months after the New Year, making now a prime time for enterprising writers to cash in on the action.

Cat’s Furball Leads to Very Impressive Resume By Felice Prager

Published on May 28, 2003 diversify your writing income, writing career advice

Before I had kids, I was a public school English teacher for about a decade. I spent my days teaching grammar, spelling, composition, and literature to students in grades ranging from middle school to high school. There were times that the decade felt more like a millennium, but it was who I was and what I did. When my first child was born, I hung up my pointer and whip, and became a full-time parent, only occasionally wondering about the outside world filled with other people’s children.