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Poppy Z Brite chronicles the spectacular and fucked-up crash-and-burn of writer Kevin W. Reardon, a.k.a. Cole A. Adams.
When writer/editor Steve Berman criticized one of Reardon’s story in an anthology review, Reardon responded by leaving “anonymous” comments on Berman’s LiveJournal blog very seriously urging hm to commit suicide. But this is the Web, and it’s amazingly simply to discover who is behind the comments on your blog — Reardon was unmasked, and has apparently moved on to making death threats.
This sort of thing gets around. If an editor hasn’t already heard about this, he or she soon will. Reardon’s career as a paid writer of horror fiction is, in all likelihood, finished.
As Elizabeth Bear says, “Dear aspiring writers: don’t do that.”
January 19th, 2009
Christa Terry is the writer and editor of the bridal blog Manolo For The Brides. Her book iDo: Planning Your Wedding with Nothing But ‘Net is coming out on June 10.
- Job-hunting in Boston.
- Envy and spite: valuable career tools.
- Enter the Manolo.
- Editorial policy in the Manolo blog empire.
- Blogging for pay: how does it work?
- Blogger ethics and conflicts of interest.
- Never Teh Bride does not shill, even for freebies.
- Blogging gives a writer a tremendous intimacy with readers.
- Anonymity or infamy? Blogging with a persona.
- Does your bridal blog change once you become a bride?
Christa’s book:
iDo: Planning Your Wedding with Nothing But ‘Net
Christa’s blogs:
http://www.manolobrides.com
http://www.manolohome.com
Christa recommends:
The Everything Guide To Writing A Book Proposal
Music by Morgansorange
June 1st, 2008
We continue our conversation with Christa Terry, learning how she made the jump from journalist to professional blogger at Manolo For The Brides.
Show notes at www.writingforpay.org
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June 1st, 2008
Christa Terry is the writer and editor of the bridal blog Manolo For The Brides. Her book iDo: Planning Your Wedding with Nothing But ‘Net is coming out on June 10.
- Our first long-distance show using Skype!
- Do gender stereotypes hold true — are men afraid of wedding talk?
- What happens when a bridal blogger plans her own wedding.
- Eating mints before eight o’clock can doom a marriage.
- Don’t be too quick to flee that internship for a paying job.
- Auditioning for a job in the newspaper business, and the perils of getting the job you want.
- Journalist by day, New Age freelancer by night.
- Using Craigslist to find freelance work.
- Good or bad, put it all on your resume!
Christa’s book:
iDo: Planning Your Wedding with Nothing But ‘Net
Christa’s blogs:
http://www.manolobrides.com
http://www.manolohome.com
Christa recommends:
The Everything Guide To Writing A Book Proposal
Music by Morgansorange
May 25th, 2008
It’s spring, and Writing For Pay’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Wade interviews Christa Terry, writer and editor of Manolo For The Brides and author of the upcoming book “iDo: Planning Your Wedding with Nothing But ‘Net”.
Show notes at www.writingforpay.org
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May 25th, 2008
Jim Geluso covers the city beat at the Bakersfield Californian.
- Wade has a new job.
- We return to the next thrilling installment of our interview with Jim Geluso, newspaper reporter.
- The rewards of a career in journalism.
- The challenges that the newspaper industry faces today.
- How is it adapting? Not very well.
- Newspapers: less litigious, self-righteous about their content than some industries we could name.
- Still want to be a journalist? Really? Advice on breaking into the field.
Jim’s City Beat blog at the Californian: http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/citybeat
Poynter Online - Romenesko blog:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45
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March 22nd, 2008
Wade plays hardball with Jim Geluso, pressing him with tough questions about the life of a journalist. In Part Two of the interview, Jim talks about the excitement of local news reporting, the challenges facing the newspaper industry, and how Yahoo! News and the Associated Press are killing journalism.
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March 22nd, 2008
Jim Geluso covers the city beat at the Bakersfield Californian.
- 0:45 - The Writing For Pay account on del.icio.us is no more. If you want to share a cool writing link, just tag your bookmark “writingforpay”.
- 1:02 - Wade is sick, but still he must write for pay.
- 2:39 - Wade sits down with Jim Geluso, a real live newspaper reporter.
- 2:50 - Journalism might be a type of writing that gets you laid, which disqualifies it from this podcast. Is this interview already over?
- 4:05 - The types of writing that Jim does for the paper.
- 6:45 - People want hard news from Washington D.C. and happy feature stories from their local area. Why?
- 7:58 - How Jim got started in writing - a passion for news and politics.
- 9:22 - Jim’s first paid writing job.
- 10:21 - The day to day challenges of journalism.
Jim’s City Beat blog at the Californian: http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/citybeat
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February 13th, 2008
Author John Scalzi offers some profoundly useful guidance to writers about money, correctly diagnosing most of us having as much financial sense “as chimps on crack.”
It’s a long essay, and I recommend you absorb every word of it. Here are his top points:
1. You’re a writer. Prepared to be broke.
2. Don’t quit your day job.
3. Marry (or otherwise shack up with) someone sensible with money, who has a real job.
4. Your income is half of what you think it is.
5. Pay off your credit cards NOW and then use them like cash later.
6. Don’t have the cash for it? You can’t have it.
7. When you do buy something, buy the best you can afford — and then run it into the ground.
8. Unless you have a truly compelling reason to be there, get the hell out of New York/LA/San Francisco.
9. Know the entire writing market and place value on your own work.
10. Writing is a business. Act like it.
Hilariously, in my marriage I’m the one with the real job. My wife is a full time self-employed artist. I’m a writer, but a salaried one.
February 13th, 2008
Wade continues his poolside conversation with freelance writer Joyce Gorsuch in Las Vegas. Joyce discusses returning to America, breaking into the local magazine market, how she finds work, and her advice to young writers. Also: Wade copies his wife’s Art History class notes from 1989 for a writing assignment. Don’t tell the professor or he’ll be totally busted!
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December 22nd, 2007
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