Notes to a new freelance writer
I spent half of last week at the American Society of Journalists and Authors conference in New York. While conferences are supposed to be about …Read More
Category Archives: Writing
Book writing in the age of blogs
Books are an old-fashioned medium, much like albums. In the iTunes era, the album model has increasingly struggled, and these days each single needs to …Read More
Books! Plus my fiction problem
UPS delivered a most delightful looking book to my doorstep today; see photo at left. Yep, the first batch of All the Money in the …Read More
Thanksgiving and the New Home Economics
(cross-posted at lauravanderkam.com) This year I attempted to make my first big turkey dinner. The holiday meal has long been one of those womanly rites of …Read More
RIP, Cookie
(cross-posted at LauraVanderkam.com) So it came out yesterday that Conde Nast, after a thorough review by McKinsey, will be shuttering a number of titles. As a …Read More
Dealing with unexpected free time
One of the challenges of making the most of our "down time" is that we often don't know when, exactly, it's going to appear, or …Read More
Welcome Globe and Mail readers!
There is a Q&A with me in Canada's Globe and Mail today called "Sorry Moms, 168 hours a week is plenty of time." I think …Read More
The book blurb
I am now filling out Penguin's Author Questionnaire. Among the requests was that I write my own synopsis/blurb for the book. After a while, I …Read More
Anticipating 168 Hours criticism
As I'm finishing up the draft of 168 Hours, I plan to send it to a number of test readers in order to see if …Read More