The change of the season from Summer to Fall always gets the creative juices flowing for me. Something about the chill and freshness of the air. So different from Summer’s stagnant humidity. Autumn air is alive. It is rich with possibility.
Part of it is the back-to-school thing. It makes me crave clean notebooks and [...]

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A couple of my friends have used print to order services like LuLu and done pretty good – mostly from ebook sales. The idea being, of course, that people are more willing to take a chance and a previously unknown author if they don’t have to pay tons of overhead or shipping just to read [...]

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I know that there’s a certain cosmopolitan excitement that comes from living in a big city with millions of people, thousands of great coffee bars and hundreds of high-end shoe stores.
However, I must point out to my fellow female urban dwellers a very harsh fact that I don’t think they realize:
Sex and the City was [...]

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I have a bit of an email/Twitter compulsion. And by “a bit” I mean I wake up in the middle of the night to check the BlackBerry on my nightstand. The BlackBerry is only 8 months old, and the chrome around the trackball is already chipping off from overuse.
It’s a sickness, I admit it.
When I’m [...]

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I never have less than eleventy-trillion books on the go at any one time. Some are for fun, others for work, others still for self-improvement. Then there are the websites, mostly industry related.
The Web Articles:

50 Tips to Improve Your Writing
Recipe for Blog Success (tasty!)
Is Online Education More Effective than Traditional Learning?

The Books:

How to Eat Like [...]

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Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? You make your own hours, set your goals, achieve them, and grab a martini to celebrate at the end of a short but satisfying day.
Or, you know, not.
The reality is that when you are entangled in an entrepreneurial life, there’s never a right time — for anything. There’s no right time, [...]

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About a year ago, when I was first starting out as a freelancer, Elle Magazine needed an assistant “advice vixen” for their Ask EJean column online. The job amounted to checking in on the EJean advice forums a few times a day, giving twee responses to dull life/fashion/relationship questions, and getting paid $3000 for it.
Sounded [...]

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