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| Lotus665 | Posted – 10/17/2005 9:29:35 AM | show profile Thoughts, anyone? |
| Nikongirl | Posted – 10/17/2005 9:44:06 AM | show profile Maybe she was offered a great job that she couldn't refuse. |
| jsk | Posted – 10/17/2005 10:18:09 AM | show profile No, apparently she's going to write a novel and freelance. |
| Marie | Posted – 10/17/2005 10:41:39 AM | show profile It's interesting how popular freelancing has become. I wish her the best. |
| TMJ | Posted – 10/17/2005 10:47:11 AM | show profile I have to say I don't get all the hype surrounding her. She may be a better writer than was evident on this site, and on Gawker, and elsewhere. I guess we will see. I heard her on WNYC during the summer and she came off as incredibly rude and dismissive, but maybe she is just incredibly shy??? She certainly has a rabidly loyal following among the ''NY bloggers.'' I find it quaint and ironic how protective they are of her, considering her merciless snarkiness on gawker (when gawker posted last week about her impending book deal and departure, the ''bloggers'' hit the roof in the comments section.) She certainly was not the best public face of MB, and her interactions with people on this board were appalling. I guess time will tell. |
| cooks | Posted – 10/17/2005 10:51:35 AM | show profile huh |
| roxannekkb | Posted – 10/17/2005 12:19:01 PM | show profile I wonder what her feelings are about freelancers being paid for their work, now that she's about to become one. I do recall that she didn't think that MB should be under any obligation to pay contributers, and there was an ongoing discussion a while ago on the forum--where she quite snootily defended her position. So Liz, do you plan on writing for free, as you expect others to? ------ www.nabeepchen.com |
| limericks4all | Posted – 10/17/2005 12:28:58 PM | show profile Maybe she just defends the right of people to be stupid and write for nothing if they choose to do so. That doesn't mean she has to be stupid as well. But I have to admit I don't know who Liz Spiers is. <<I wonder what her feelings are about freelancers being paid for their work, now that she's about to become one. I do recall that she didn't think that MB should be under any obligation to pay contributers, and there was an ongoing discussion a while ago on the forum--where she quite snootily defended her position. So Liz, do you plan on writing for free, as you expect others to? >> |
| tim.underhill | Posted – 10/17/2005 12:47:02 PM | show profile Good riddance Her involvement with the site seemed to be limited to keeping herself in the public eye long just long enough to sell her book, and her contributions were consistently teeming with condescension and run-on sentences. Maybe now the powers that be will realize the world doesn't need two Gawkers? |
| mkelly | Posted – 10/17/2005 12:47:11 PM | show profile Is she one of those media people who writes about the media and is read only by the media who then report it in their media columns? More to the point, can she recommend a voice recorder for a cell phone? (See other thread on today's board, which actually has some relevance to media people's lives.) Serioulsy, I never heard of this chick, and I get around. |
| nekalit | Posted – 10/17/2005 12:52:09 PM | show profile I forgot about Elizabeth Spiers after she left gawker. I thought she was incredibly witty while at gawker, but I thought the Kicker was a drag. I just found out she was a mediabistro in the past two weeks. I don't really read the mediabistro homepage anymore since the Revolving Door became AvantGuild. The Revolving Door use to draw me to the homepage, and then I'd read other randomly linked articles. |
| foodlit | Posted – 10/17/2005 1:24:06 PM | show profile Looks like she already wrote and sold that novel....so she doesn't need this job anymore. In today's pubmarketplace, Fiction: Debut Former Gawker and MediaBistro blogger Elizabeth Spiers' novel AND THEY ALL DIE IN THE END, a satire of Wall Street and the media, to Geoffrey Kloske at Simon & Schuster, by Kate Lee at ICM (world English). |
| VillageGal | Posted – 10/17/2005 5:01:15 PM | show profile it about the platform This just goes to show that having a platform helps you sell any book. Sadly, It is not necessarily about being a good writer. She has the platform thing down - and she has a book. End of story. |
| foodlit | Posted – 10/17/2005 5:33:49 PM | show profile Unfortunately, that is very true. If you have a compelling platform and story, the writing can be average. |
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