Sorry to scare you, but it is. Which means you’re going to need extra money for all those annoying holiday incidentals. And if you freelance, times will be lean from mid-December to mid-January, as clients are focusing on their own holiday events.
Have you ever thought about writing an e-book? No, not fiction. They don’t sell [...]

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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 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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Meh. So I’ve been writing this e-book for a while now. It’s actually done, barring the appendices and the very useful checklists to be included at the end. The subject: Stress Free Moving and Relocation. It’s a subject I have oodles of experience in, and the book itself – a useful how-to – only took [...]

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I was in the bookstore the other day, picking up a copy of Robert Bly’s new book, 88 Money-Making Writing Jobs. I needed some new ideas on where to pitch my services, and the book has already proved useful in inspiring me to expand my search for clients.
Anyway, it was a Thursday afternoon around 2 [...]

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Hi everyone. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and that you have big plans for the New Year.
Santa was kind enough to bring me the BlackBerry Pearl I wanted, in pink naturally. Of course, for whatever reason it hasn’t arrived yet, and Santa gets testy when I keep nagging him about it. [...]

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Due to having to do physical work around the farm this past week, I am a little behind schedule. So I’m using the weekend to catch up on the articles I have to write. I was supposed to go to a NaNo writing “party” this morning in Lawrence, but I skipped it to catch up [...]

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Freelancers often just throw themselves out there, using their words as bait, hoping for a big fish.
In Jennifer Mattern’s Web Writer’s Guide, she details how to draft a business plan for yourself as a freelance writer.
Included in the list of things your plan should cover:

Your goal
Your mission
Your target market
Budget
Income projections

I will admit that before reading [...]

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I was up to my ears in projects this week (yay! bills can get paid!), but I will spend this weekend working on my e-book and my NaNo outline.
I admit that I’m not great at outline writing. When it comes to fiction, I have a tendency to just sit down and hope for the best! [...]

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A new book for web writers, from Jennifer Mattern.

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