So, after hearing that My Space is one of the best free marketing and promotional tools out there, I’m finally starting to get my own page going. ( As if I need another blog). But while I take the time to fill out every “favorite” I’ve ever had, maybe some of you can tell me […]
» Read more...Category: A Writer’s Life
Writer and Editor find FREE WiFi in the Valley
Amy Scott and I are in town at the same time and finding great WiFi coffee houses to work in. I’m writing (still the Vegas guidebook), and she’s editing (other travel guidebooks). We met back in San Francisco a few years ago, I think through a BootsnAll connection, but it’s been so long I don’t […]
» Read more...I Obviously Need to “Evelate” My Level of Editing
So, The Thong Also Rises got an awful review in the Ventura County Reporter. “The Bar Should Be Raised for The Thong Also Rises” I wish that Jen Leo, rather than choosing which stories to include the anthology, had actually edited the writing in the stories. That could have evelated this entertaining-but-forgettable book from a […]
» Read more...Book Proposal Time
And the good news is that the agent I want is interested in my Girlfriend’s Guide to Dating a Poker Player. She’s asked me to write a book proposal with only one sample chapter in it and she already knows the perfect editor for it. She never takes books like this, but with poker being […]
» Read more...Writer/Editor Communications
So, all week and last week I’ve been struggling with my Vegas guidebook project. And it’s SO late. But I felt like the project turned from a quick refresh, to a rewrite of the whole thing. I know and love Vegas, but I don’t live at each and every venue all day every day and […]
» Read more...I Just Joined Amazon Connect
Amazon has a new program called Amazon Connect that lets authors interact with their fans/book buyers. It says that it’s only open to a select group of authors to launch the program, but I signed up and was verified immediately without any delay. If you are an author who has a book for sale on […]
» Read more...2006 Travel Writing Resolutions, Opportunities
Happy New Year Everyone! So, what are your goals? Are you making any fantasy resolutions of writing more, pitching more, finally dusting off the manuscript you were working on last year and giving it a fresh look? Are you going to move from department blurbs to magazine features? Maybe you want to try out for […]
» Read more...Seasons Grettings Everyone!
Just a quick message to wish everyone a happy holiday season. I hope you got new journals, pens, computers, editing software, new books—any new toys that will inspire. 2006 is going to be a good productive year. I can feel it. I just got off the phone with someone in the travel multi media world. […]
» Read more...I Never Thought I’d be a Guidebook Writer
Why? It’s so much work for such little pay. But I got a call last month and they got me when I was too busy to think about it. Funseekers is smartly rebranding themselves as Pulse Guides. And they needed someone who knows and loves Vegas to give them a revamp. So, I’m in Vegas […]
» Read more...Bob Finds the Time
I don’t have enough time… for enjoying the max out of every friend I have for building all my ideas to fruition for giving my family as much time and love as they deserve for keeping up with movies for reading and especially not for becoming a true artist. At anything. But Bob seems to […]
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