Archive for December, 2009

As I’ve said here a few times, I’m somewhat a connoisseur of the odd Craigslist ad.  While this posting has been flagged for removal (damn!) the headline was enough to land this one a place in my Hall of Fame:
******Attention Screenwriters: Think ‘Twilight’ Meets ‘Saw’******
The mental image this headline evoked almost made up for the two hours [...]

My hometown writing agency, Atlanta’s own Write2Market, has released their 2010 Writing Trends report. Follow the link for insights from people like Amazon’s Jeff Bezo’s (feel free to boo and hiss right now because of Amazon’s recent treatment of authors) and HARO’s Peter Shankman.
Write2Market has also kindly released the document under a Creative Commons license, [...]

We’re professional writers and we all know how to use apostrophes. And that makes it that much more annoying when someone around us does not. Do you have a Facebook friend or a Twitter follower who constantly murders the apostrophe? Send them this and they may not even notice they’re being impatiently corrected.
Just, whatever you [...]

Do you ever wonder what it all means? Sure, we bow our heads over our keyboards day after day and write, write, write, but how are we contributing to a larger whole? I sometimes wonder how many freelance writers just like me are out there, how they work, where they work, and, of course, what [...]

I was looking through my giant RSS list of Craigslist writing jobs and found this little rant sandwiched in among the Toronto Writing Jobs. Whoever you are, my anonymous brother or sister, I salute you.

So sick of cheap writing rates! (anywhere)
from Toronto Writing Jobs
To all of the job posters looking for writers and offering “get your [...]


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Upcoming Appearances

If you live in the Atlanta area, I would love to meet you. Please see below for a list of events I plan to appear at or attend over the remainder of the year. Stop by and say hi, or better yet, drop me an email and let's coordinate a get together!

December

The Write Room's Playpen (Literary Reading & Music Showcase) - Tuesday, 12/1/09 - Johnnie McCracken's Pub (Marietta, Georgia) - Join us for Festivus!