Interesting article by Russell Smith in today’s Globe & Mail about a new, sooper-seekrit publishing meme: “big”.
I heard it the most, as I am guessing most authors do, in the course of receiving rejections for a book. From publishers in Canada, the United States and Britain, I heard great compliments – it’s clever, [...]

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Remember books? I used to read them. Sometimes one each day! Now I’m lucky if I can read one book each month.
It began with fiction. Once I began blogging about news, politics and war, I stopped reading fiction. My fortunes went to pay for non-fiction tomes on subjects that gave me nightmares.
Then I gave up [...]

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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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A very unique and rare opportunity has cropped up on the internet. Alan Rinzler, lifelong editor, is offering to receive book proposals and critique your work for free!
You’re all invited to send in an abbreviated 15-page proposal, fiction or non-fiction, which should include the following elements:
1.  “Hook” or overview (one page)
2.  Chapter outline (three pages)
3.  [...]

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Blogging is what I am most used to. You write a post, press a button, and you’re done. It is instant gratification – a big thing to my generation!
Traditional book publishing – or dead tree publishing – is anything but instantaneous. You write a query. Send it off. Get a little feed back. Revise, [...]

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Despite the various inaccurate clichés about the work at home moms who stay in their pajamas all day and watch Oprah, real working from home isn’t like that. Yes, freelancing is feast or famine much of the time, with some days being writing chaos while others are spent cruising the job sites and praying hard.
Yes, [...]

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I was never much for staying still and learning in school. I preferred to do my own learning, and I feel I’m smarter for it. Seriously – who is better read? The person forced at the point of a failing grade to read Anna Karenina, or the one who decides that her cross-country train trip [...]

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I meant to link to this the other day.
Gayla McCord at MomGadget writes most eloquently about the help she got just from reading the ProBlogger book, ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income.
Her article is very moving and extremely persuasive. Who isn’t looking for a miracle right now? God knows I am.

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Or so it seemed in 1996 when I bought the cute little turquoise coupe that I used to bomb around the streets of Montreal in.
And now, a week after launching Girl on the Write Freelancing, suddenly writers are peeking out of the woodwork. I get an email from old pal Michael, who I hear from [...]

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I left Cubicle Hell back in April – and not by choice, either. Sometimes these things just happen. In my case, I began searching for another corporate gig, and freelancing on the side just to earn a few dollars to tide me over. It was months before I realized that a) the economy sucked and [...]

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