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Self-Publishing: Pros and Cons by Samella McClary-Brown
Roses & Thorns | May 14th 2008 by Nannette Croce
Ladies Who Launch Boston Event
The Urban Muse | May 8th 2008
Last night I attended a panel about entrepreneurship presented by the Boston chapter of Ladies Who Launch. What a great group of successful, creative women! Even though I'm not peddling a product or planning to go public with my writing business, I s read more
Life in the Freelance Lane
writing rambles | May 5th 2008 by sue
Giving AdviceOver at my professional blog I have been writing a series of post on becoming a freelance writer. It all looks so neat and tidy moving from one step through to the other, yet freelancing isn't really that cut and dried. When I look back read more
Genres:The Over-Classification of Literature by Nannette Croce
Roses & Thorns | April 30th 2008 by Nannette Croce
Amazon - POD Monopoly?
Authoressa’s Writing Journey | March 28th 2008 by Venessa Giunta
Now, however, Amazon is using its leverage as a retail giant to force publishers to use BookSurge. The result if they don't? Amazon will turn off the "Buy" button on their book listings.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Amazon - POD Monopoly?", url: "http read more
Blogging: Is it helpful to your writing career? by Kathryn Magend…
Roses & Thorns | March 11th 2008 by Nannette Croce
Writers and Taxes: Save Those Receipts* by Nannette Croce
Roses & Thorns | March 10th 2008 by Nannette Croce
The Writing JHourney - Business and Pleasure!
The Blog List | February 21st 2008 by Joliveira
The Writing JHourney - Business and Pleasure! About this blog: Here, we’ll be talking about lots of different things pertaining to both the craft of writing and the business of writing. We might even go off on a tangent about history, the weather, read more
The Growing Question of e-books
Authoressa’s Writing Journey | January 14th 2008 by Venessa Giunta
I think the e-book business model is a good one on the surface. Low overhead, lower pricing, higher profits. However, the flaws are similar to what the music and movie businesses are battling right now. read more
Money Makes the World Go 'Round...
The Urban Muse | January 1st 2008
Is anyone else scrambling to figure out their financial picture from last year? Erik Sherman posted some helpful articles back in December about tying up money matters for the year here and here. Enjoy!Read more... read more
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Cherryl Floyd-Miller - Rootwork: A Writer's Life and Po… | November 30th 2007 by Cherryl Floyd-Miller
Bitter Pill: A Writer Rants About Hollywood Writers on StrikeA Counterpunch.org article, "Memo to Striking Entertainment Writers," by Christopher Ketcham has to be the most antagonistic piece of writing I've seen in a while. The essay reads like a us read more
5 Q's with Abigail Green
The Urban Muse | November 7th 2007
Abigail Green has contributed to WashingtonPost.com, AOL.com, and Health magazine to name a few. She also blogs about being a new mom. Here she shares some insights into the business of writing...Urban Muse: Tell us about your first big clip.Abigail: read more
Small Business Grants for Women
The Writing Geek | October 19th 2007 by Dave Ware
In my last post, I mentioned that I was going to make an attempt at selling an article or three in the Helium.com ‘Marketplace’. Yesterday, I posted my first article for that attempt, “A Guide to Small Business Grants for Women̶ read more
Weekend Networking
The Urban Muse | October 14th 2007
As writers, it's easy for us to become so focused on the words that we forget how important relationships are. Not just with editors, but with other writers and also potential clients. This week I've had several networking opportunities fall into my read more
Joys of Moving
The Urban Muse | August 24th 2007
Today I went to the bank to change my mailing address (they won't let me do it online because of security concerns). I pulled out my personal and business debit cards and handed them to the bank teller. Eying my black Visa card, he asked if my boss h read more
Kudos to Statcounter!
The Urban Muse | July 29th 2007
I'm a fan of Statcounter. It's free, easy to use and gives me tons of data on who reads my blog, when, and for how long. Last week, when this blog passed 10,000 page loads, I became an even bigger fan of Statcounter. Then I read that the founder, Aod read more
Weekend Reading
The Urban Muse | June 15th 2007
This is too good not to share: Penelope Trunk wrote a blog post today entitled "How to Get a Six Figure Book Deal from Your Blog." She's a smart lady, that Penelope! Have a great weekend, everyone.Read more... read more
Shades of Speculation
The Urban Muse | June 14th 2007
A few months ago, I got a request to write an article on spec. I debated, but ultimately decided to go for it. And today my decision paid off. It had been so long with no answer that last night I considered submitting it elsewhere. As if on cue, I go read more
Summer Slump
The Urban Muse | June 9th 2007
Is it just me or all the editors on vacation right now? It's been really slow around here, but thankfully I've been able to drum up some assignments from editors I've already worked with (yay for building relationships!). I also took some time to re- read more
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