It is way too early for me to be thinking about Xmas. Let alone twice in a week. But I found what seems to be the lovechild of Chris Elliott and BMWFilms. KevinKringle.com I can’t decide which short I’m laughing at more…probably the one about presents. The best part was finding out if I was […]
» Read more...Month: October 2004
NATJA Award Time
Wow, this year has gone by FAST! It feels like I've lived three years in the past one. Susan, can you believe it has only been four months since we were cashing in the NATJA award from last year? Ok folks, I had the best fortune in winning the 2003 NATJA Grand Prize for Sand […]
» Read more...BlogAds
The reason behind writing this post is two-fold. First, my friends at WorldHum.com put out a call for support to the folks that have been enjoying their site. They want to hire someone to bring them into the technological New Age. And they’d like to get to a point where they can attract advertisers. Well, […]
» Read more...Meet Me in Chicago at the Savvy Traveller!
TONIGHT is the big event at The Savvy Traveller. For those of you who will be coming by there are three things to note: 1) It starts at 6pm. (We had it previously listed as 7pm) The store is located on South Michigan Avenue between Jackson and Van Buren. 2) They want you to bring […]
» Read more...10 Tips to Creating A Powerful Platform
“10 Tips to Creating a Powerful Platform” by Annie Jennings She has her own PR agency— Annie Jennings PR. Hmmm….it looks like I have a ways to go yet. Still, I had a 13 year-old walk up to me last night and ask if I was famous. That’s something. Thanks, Mattie!
» Read more...Google Print (Beta)
Google is being book friendly. Letting book content go through their system so that people searching topics will have books come up when they’re looking for related words or topics. Google Print (Beta) Publishers Lunch had quite a bit to say about it today. Especially in relation to what’s going on at the Frankfurt Book […]
» Read more...Canadian Magazine Market Leads
I had a great shindig in Toronto with a bunch of ladies including Michele Petersen. Michele, who wrote “Hat Head” from Sand in My Bra spearheaded the event and led me to Wordstock 2004 where I was able to sit in on a humor writing class. But back to the women…there were six of us […]
» Read more...On My Christmas List
You better believe I want this… Welcome to Las Vegas Nothing like acquiring more crap for the abode I still don’t have! From the Las Vegas Weekly Newsletter: It also can be found at retail outlets in the following venues: the Las Vegas Convention Center; MGM-Mirage properties; Hudson Group souvenir shops at McCarran International Airport; […]
» Read more...Submission Call: Lonely Planet Humor Book
I'm so excited to tell you that Don George at Lonely Planet is putting together a humor collection! I’m not sure if I’m supposed to feel competitive about this (TT can slap me later), but I don’t feel that way at all. And I really really want to get a story in so I’ll have […]
» Read more...WrittenRoad.com works!
Two recent reports have come in from travel writers who got bylines from the leads on this site. Woohoo! Congratulations to Leif Pettersen whose efforts with iTravelSyndicate have made him some moooolah! Read the previous post. And more hoorahs to a BootsnAll fan who got to write for Transition Abroad. ” It was really a pleasure […]
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