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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
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
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
Music by Morgansorange
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
Music by Morgansorange
February 13th, 2008
Joyce Gorsuch is an accomplished media professional who has produced radio programs for the award-winning daily news show “State of Nevada” at Nevada Public Radio. As a freelance writer and editor she has created content on topics ranging from rice research to silent films to commercial real estate development.
Joyce’s home page: http://www.mediabistro.com/joycegorsuch
December 22nd, 2007
Eric Franklin posted his own show notes (and some clarifications) for the episode in which I interviewed him! Read them on his blog.
October 15th, 2007
Eric Franklin plays games, edits games, demonstrates games, writes about games, and for all we know, eats games.
- 0:25 - Another on-the-scene show, this time from Phoenix Games in Mukilteo. “Neurse Schivosk” is a reference to Greg Costikyan’s Slobbovia.
- 1:15 - Eric Franklin joins us.
- 1:36 - The nuts and bolts of Eric’s job editing translations of French games for Asmodee Editions.
- 2:56 - How Eric got the gig: from demonstrating games at conventions to working on them.
- 4:34 - A bit about Asmodee’s processes.
- 6:08 -About the European game industry.
- 6:55 - Differences between American-style games and European-style games.
- 8:35 - A preview of the upcoming game Hell Dorado, in which humanity raids Hell for its precious metals and other resources.
- 9:52 - Challenges of the work.
- 11:30 - A preview of The Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow: New Moon.
- 13:10 - The role of game blogs in the industry.
- 14:02 - Advice for newcomers to the field.
Eric’s blog: http://gamethyme.blogspot.com/
Music by Morgansorange
October 14th, 2007
We chat with Seattle-based freelancer Zia Munshi (and at one point, her pug Harry.)
- 0:20 - Wade is working from a noisy, noisy Starbucks. The resulting sound quality is not awesome.
- :43 - That second piece? Insanely hard to write, as it turned out.
- 1:11 - That barista in the background was hilarious.
- 1:39 - Zia Munshi joins us.
- 2:29 - Zia’s career trajectory.
- 3:38 - Getting that first ad agency gig.
- 4:19 - Young Zia’s six months in India working on a magazine for Americans.
- 5:35 - Projects: Like/Do Not Like
- 8:13 - Continually improving as a writer.
- 9:13 - Anathema words.
- 11:36 - How Zia finds freelance work.
- 12:10 - Advice for aspiring writers: the power of blogging, and putting together a portfolio.
Zia’s blog: www.ziamunshi.com
Music by Morgansorange
September 21st, 2007
Part Two of our conversation with writer, editor, and game designer Wolfgang Baur.
- 0:58 - What Wade is up to lately, writing-wise.
- 2: 18 - Wolfgang’s Open Design project: writing for patrons!
- 6:11 - Keeping the patrons entertained while they’re waiting.
- 8:05 - Why the relative lack of advice and how-tos in the game industry?
- 11:05 - Open Design vs. the open source software movement.
- 12:44 - Weeding out the Internet trolls.
- 15:00 - Some pitfalls of the patron system.
- 19:26 - When writers need to tell their patrons no.
- 20:25 - The project as a conversation.
- 20:55 - Empire Of The Ghouls!
- 22:31 - Wolfgang’s new magazine, Kobold Quarterly.
- 24:10 - How you can get a copy.
- 25:46 - Advice to aspiring writers.
- 28:05 - Will publishers be interested in your awesome game ideas?
- 28:48 - Your first audience is the editor.
- 29:47 - Submit your square-peg queries to Kobold Quarterly!
- 30:40 - So many URLs do we have.
Wolfgang Baur’s Web site: www.wolfgangbaur.com
Publications by Wolfgang Baur:
Music by Morgansorange
August 22nd, 2007
Caught up in Pottermania, WFP geeks out with writer, editor, and game designer Wolfgang Baur.
- 0:25 - At Third Place Books, buying Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.
- 2:07 - Wolfgang Baur takes a break from training his hordes of clockwork ghouls to have a word with us.
- 2:39 - From gamer to writer to editor at TSR.
- 5:50 - The subject of fiction comes up, and Wolfgang is apprised of the “not getting laid” rule.
- 6:26 - The day job: technical and benefits writing.
- 8:35 - Breaking into the tech writing field with relatively little tech experience.
- 12:20 - Nuts and bolts: juggling multiple internal clients and budgets.
- 16:08 - Freelancing in the games industry.
- 16:29 - Wolfgang plugs his new books Expedition to the Demonweb Pits and The Forge of War.
- 16:55 - Nuts and bolts: how a role-playing game book gets made.
- 19:24 - We discuss the difference between game design and game writing.
- 22:06 - The sad realities of work for hire.
- 22:42 - Finding freelance work.
- 24:54 - I can’t for the life of me pronounce “Wingardium Leviosa” correctly.
Wolfgang Baur’s Web site: www.wolfgangbaur.com
Publications by Wolfgang Baur:
Music by Morgansorange
August 9th, 2007
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