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Archives: August 2006

Fly Like an Eagle

How to Pitch: Via magazine

A Year Later: TVNewsers On Katrina

Interview with Alexandra Cooper

25 Things You Must Know Before Buying Digital Camera

Spec Script Superstars

SalesRants XIV: Pigeon Feed

How to Pitch: Ms.

How To Manage Diarrhea of the Brain

So What Do You Do, Michael Ian Black?

Talk to the Newsroom: Sports

Reference Shelf 8.29.06

Writing Great Personal Essays: Separating Your Good Ideas from Your Not-As-Good Ideas

From the Editors: Stacy Boyd, Harlequin

The Writing Life: Quirks and Idiosyncrasies

Bulletin Board Blab 8.28.06

Scooped by a Source

Query Upside-Down For the Trades

When You Need a Reference But Nobody Loved You

When Strange Things are Afoot at the Circle K...

This Week in mb Learning

How to Write a Book

How to Pitch: mental_floss

Pop Quiz: Linda Formichelli

Lessons from Other Writers

5 Signs Your Blog Post Is Going Horribly Wrong

The Eye of a Travel Writer

Newhouse School To Launch Media Business Journo Awards

The Importance of Being (a) Prompt

Persuasive Blogging

SalesRants XIII: Between a Rock and a Sales Guy

Old Beginnings

Shut Up. No You Shut Up. No. You. You.

Radio Markets for Travel Writing

Ten Things for the Utility Lovers

HRQs: Community Connect, Inc.

Reference Shelf 8.22.06

New Trends in Publishing: Other People's Stuff

Dear Editor; This Is My Cover Letter.

What Was Your Little Golden Book?

5 Steps To Being More Photogenic

Unfinished Business

When and Why Authors Self-Publish

Burning and Ripping Music Magazines in the MP3 Era

Vote on your favorite "query letter I'd love to send"

Virtually Protecting Yourself

Are You Good Looking Enough to Publish A Book?

The Shape of Things?

This Week in mb Classes

Assume Nothing

Is Fiction Going to the Dogs?

Spilling Secrets

Ask Metafilter on Writing

The Inner Surface of Funny

Mastheads! Mastheads Galore

Reference Shelf 8.17.06

"If H.L. Mencken and Dorothy Parker were young writers just starting out today, or late bloomers just starting out today, they wouldn't get anywhere"

Keep Your Computer Running Smooth

How to Pitch: Fast Company

The Ethics of Writing Recommendation Letters

A Kossack's Guide to Book Publishing

Talk to the Newsroom

The Art of the Interview, ESPN-Style

Wanted: Postie/Newsie With Bad Self-Esteem

Varieties of Insanity Known to Affect Authors

SalesRants XII: Ask Secret Sales Guy

Habits of Highly Famous Writers

The Writer's Digest 7th Annual Short Short Story Competition

Pitching an Agent: Julie Castiglia/ Castiglia Literary Agency

Real Life Legal Fiction Writers on Writing Legal Fiction (In Real Life)

Bulletin Board Blab 8.14.06

Get a (Freelance) Life

Don't Be Dufus Darryl or Sour Grapes Greta

Blockbuster Plots by Threes

Family Time/Freelancing Time

This Week in mb Learning

World Trade Center Press Junket 'Whore' Critic Banned By Paramount

Blogging the Wrong Way?

When You Don't Wanna

The Miss Snark Weekly Roundup

Budget Mags Not So Full of Budgety Goodness?

Damn You Canada!

Reference Shelf 8.10.06

Who Should Pay?

Breaking News Is Back in Style

Beware the Boards

How to Pitch: Atlanta

Surefire Signs of a Virtual Violation

Bulletin Board Blab 8.09.06

How to Pitch Your Book at a Writing Conference

Creative Client Cons

From the Editors: John Williams of Harper Perennial

SalesRants XI: In Memoriam: The Three-Martini Lunch

How Many Friends Does Your Book Have?

POD Files Held Hostage for $1500?

Negotiate Your Way to Higher Pay

Writing Your First Adventure

When is it Theft?

10 Tips I Wish Someone Had Given Me Before I Launched My Freelance Writing Career

Forming a Writers' Group

Finding an Internal Job

"Workshops Are Rubbish"

The Writers' Writers

Another Helpful Money-Saving Tip

Copyright Vs. Fair Use: Still a Case by Case Problem for Courts

This week in mb Classes

Miss Snark Wrapup

The Review Copy Helper

Apples And Oranges: Adapting Your Novel, by Rob Loughran

Pop Quiz: Martha Barnette

Reference Shelf 8.3.06

Pitch Your Heart Out

How to Pitch: Seventeen

Tom Shess: "I'm Alive!"

In Praise Of: Competitive Strategy

Via Ask Metafilter: "Are 'office'-type businesses for writers a good idea?"

The Girls' Guide to Writing and Publishing

Bulletin Board Blab 8.2.06

Consignment Blues

Finished a Short Film: Now What?

SalesRants X: The Hardest Sell of Them All

Writing for Women's Mags and the Follow-Through

Ride Out the Ups and Downs of Publicity

Moneysaving Tips You'll Never Read About in Magazines

Reference Shelf 8.1.06

More Misc. Publishing

From the Editors: Brooke Warner of Seal Press

mb Student Success Story

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