Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category

An irate freelance editor telling the Craigslist world what’s what finally made Best of Craigslist! It truly is our year!
re: novel writer wanted for an idiot

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 [...]

Best Buy is selling 99” plasma televisions for $500. Heck, Wal-Mart is selling Blu-ray players for -$14.99. Or so it seems. And what’s to stop you from doing all your holiday shopping at the big chains? We’re in a down economy and ever dollar saved helps, right? Actually, you may not be saving as much [...]

For the past year and a half I’ve been in graduate school. Not coincidentally, I have also been a freelance writer for the past year and a half. And – follow my SAT analogy here – that means that this past summer was the only time I have been a freelance writer without simultaneously being [...]

Paul Hemphill is dead. Whether he was writing newspaper features or later, novels and nonfiction books, he showed us that a minor leaguer aiming for the Bigs is more than a small town boy making good, and that the soul of country music – real country music, not this pseudo-pop crap they pass off [...]

Happy 4th of July to all my American readers and Happy 5th of July (Venezuelan Independence Day) to my husband and our Venezuelan family!
The Life and Times of a Freelance Writer will be back Monday with more “Quick and Dirty Guide to Landing Freelance Writing Jobs.”

Well, that will save me the time of writing my own obituary. I do have a lot of better paying work…
(I stuck it here since the CL ads I reference always seem to disappear on me before I can share them. Gawp at the real thing here.)

Plague Hiatus

In: Miscellaneous

8 May 2009

I’ve been on hiatus all this week due to an illness than can only be the Bubonic plague or the 1918-1919 Spanish flu. (But, according to doctors, it isn’t the swine flu, so whew.) I’ll be back next week and hopefully, better than ever. Thanks for sticking it out with me, readers. You can bet [...]

Someone found my blog through searching the phrase “anthropological study of Christmas dinner.”
I suppose it took them here. I’m willing to be my rant against academic cheating post probably wasn’t exactly what they were looking for, but I oh so very glad that they stayed to read anyway. Good luck in your search, random stranger.


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  • Jenn Escalona: I guess, as someone who gets frustrated with crazy pay myself, I'm giving her the benefit of the dou [...]
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  • Jenn Escalona: I've had one instance of bad grammar ruin whole articles or books for me! Sometimes ignorance really [...]

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!