freelance writer and editor
Normally the freelance journalist's life is an endless cycle of pitching, waiting, scrambling, panicking and pitching again. This year I've been spoiled with ongoing engagements with select editorial and corporate clients that have allowed me to mostly avoid pitching panic altogether. I dare say it's been the best year of my freelance career so far,… Continue reading My favorite things of 2018
I've got a real backlog of magazines on my end table, and yet I just can't stop reading. Here are 12 things I read and loved (or at least couldn't stop thinking about) this past month. (See the previous things I've read here.) Germany's Racist Present (Quartz) — despite a dedication to preventing another Holocaust, Germany… Continue reading things I’ve read lately, vol. 3
be forewarned: a lot of these are #longreads. a lot of the links in this edition are amazing older articles that i recently found or revisited. A Pickpocket's Tale (New Yorker) — this guy's picture is in the dictionary under prestidigitation Why the "Friend Zone" is Bullshit (Foz Meadows) — how "nice guys" are the… Continue reading things i’ve read lately, vol. 2
If you follow me, you know I share craptons of links on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. But I realized that they get lost amid all the other things happening on Social Media. So here are things I've read and loved lately, some are new, some are not so new. Maybe I'll post my recommended reading… Continue reading things i’ve read lately, vol. 1
While I was on my crafty book tour, I took a brief detour between Pittsburgh and Cleveland to talk to Jacquie Marino's magazine publishing class at Kent State's journalism school. I love any excuse to visit my alma mater, but I was especially stoked to talk about the current state of magazine publishing and how I went… Continue reading how to pitch a story to a magazine
