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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

August 27th, 2008

A New and Good Blog About Self Publishing

(www.thegoldenpencil.com)
Joe Wikert does it again, this time by pointing to a new blog called Self Publishing Today. The author is Ray Robinson who is with Dog Ear Publishing, a company that offers a variety of self-publishing services.
The blog looks good. For example, on August 25, Robinson posted Self Publishing Hits - The Lace Reader, […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

July 21st, 2008

Traditonal Publishing v. Self-Publishing

Writer Mark Hurst, author of Bit Literacy which as he puts it, he ended up self-publishing, has a post over at Good Experience called Secrets of book publishing I wish I had known.
I found the post through Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 blog in an article called: An Author Shares His Secrets. It’s worth reading both. […]

By Anne Wayman -- 1 comment

July 13th, 2008

3 Blogs on How To Write

Hmmm. I thought the key phrase how to write would bring up a bunch of blogs that might fall under the rubric of getting the writing done. Not so. After 45 minutes of messing around, these three are the ones I found that make any sense at all.

ReadWriteWeb - not exactly about how to write, […]

By Anne Wayman -- 4 comments

July 3rd, 2008

Writing as a Home Business

Mary Emma Allen who blogs at HomeBizNotes is focusing July on how writing and publishing fits in as a home based business. She’s done considerable writing herself and I, for one, am going to keep an eye on her blog to see what she’s up to. I’m bound to learn something.
Today her post is titled: […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

June 8th, 2008

Five Sunday Writing Blog Links

Let’s see… no particular focus this morning, at least not at the moment.

Contract Worker, a b5media blog, almost always seems to have something relevant for freelance writers and editors. Take, for example: Why Self-Promotion is a Must

Copyblogger is another mainstay, even if you’re not writing copy. In fact, I can’t think of a genre that […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

April 4th, 2008

Writers! Thumb Your Nose at Naysayers

Just in case I haven’t been clear, if you want to be a freelance writer, go for it. Ignore the naysayers; it’s worked for me and it’s worked for others.
Liz Strauss over at Successful Blog has a two parter that demonstrates the point. The first, The power of survival stories, saying “damn it all” and […]

By Anne Wayman -- 5 comments

March 4th, 2007

Q&A: Which Comes First? An Agent or a Publisher?

Hey Anne,
I’m writing a memoir. Some people know that, some don’t. I blog about it from time to time. Anyway, I spent a couple of hours last night with my nose buried in 2007 Writer’s Markets. Read up on literary agents, made note of those who represent memoirs, and studied the […]

By Anne Wayman -- 3 comments