August 2009

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Today sees the launch of a new occasional feature on this blog – a retrospective. When you blog for a long time, there are some good posts that readers never see. Today I’m presenting some of my favourites. This Month In … 2006 It Shouldn’t Happen To A Freelance Writer ...

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Yay! I got a Proximidade Blogger Award from Michael Kwan. It’s for “exceedingly charming, blogging friends who aim to find and be friends.” Thanks, Michael, and thanks also for stating that I made it past the ‘mark all as read’ threshold in your feed reader. So, now that I’ve got ...

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The AC Source Book, written by Sabah Karimi, makes the bold claim that it offers everything you need to know about making money online with Associated Content. I don’t write for AC myself, but I thought I’d take the book for a spin and see what I could learn. Sabah’s ...

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I created an ebook/ezine in about 20 minutes today – and I did it using Zinepal. This handy online tool (which you can try without even signing up) allows you to pull together recent posts from your blog (via the RSS feed) or from any web page to create an ...

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Today’s guest post has been contributed by Julie-Ann Amos of ExquisiteWriting.com HubPages is, like Helium, Constant Content, Squidoo and any number of others, an online community to post articles. The idea is you post content and the site rewards you in some way. In HubPages’ case, you get the Amazon ...

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Are you doing what you planned with your writing career? For me, the answer is yes and no. When I first thought about writing as a career, I had no idea of the form it would take, but I assumed that at some point I would write a novel, get ...

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