Copy editing isn’t only for full-time copy editors. Freelance writer, journalist, and editor Michael Maynard just accepted a writing position with an Internet-based services company.
He writes, “Taking the copy editing class was a big reason why the offer was made to me.”
Create a social media strategy, launch your campaign, and track the results in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. The online event and workshop will feature speakers including The Onion's Baratunde Thurston (left), Facebook's Morin Oluwole, and bitly's Tim Devane. Register now.
Susan Shapiro recently sold her first novel, Speed Shrinking, in a two book deal to St. Martin’s Press thanks to her new agent (and fellow mb instructor) Ryan Fischer-Harbage.
Sue sold the book, which is about food addiction, while she was fasting on Yom Kippur. It should be coming out August 2009. She says, “I’ve been trying fiction since 1981 and this is the first word of it I’ve ever sold. (Of course my family and husband think everything I’ve written has been fiction.)”
Sue is the author of several memoirs including Lighting Up, Five Men Who Broke My Heart, and Only As Good as Your Word.
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Lawrence Everett Forbes joins the long list of mediabistro students to publish in The New York Times‘ Modern Love column. His essay, “A Brother as Significant as Any Other,” explores the relationship of a pair of gay and straight siblings. Mediabistro’s connection to Modern Love goes back to the inaugural column, written by instructor and man-about-town Steve Friedman.
During his mediabistro class, Lawrence wrote an essay about the effects of his spinal surgery on his family. It was published on Newsweek.com.
Lawrence is currently polishing up his first memoir, which has attracted the attention of literary agents. Meanwhile, check out his blog, “Notes of a Bourgeois Dork“.
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Lori Hope took one of our first magazine writing courses in San Fransisco. She says it “resulted in several freelance gigs, a widely-read book, and a great job as editor of a Bay Area monthly.”
Her best-selling book, Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know, has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and on ABC’s Nightline, and Lori has been a guest on the Oprah Winfrey show.
Michelle Goodman has both taken and taught Mediabistro classes. Her new book, My So-Called Freelance Life: How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire, was released by Seal Press this month.
Susan Shapiro calls it “smart, funny, on the money.”
Robert Todd Felton has been busy since taking our online travel writing course. He has published 2 books; the latest, Walking Boston, is out this month. He has made the rounds as a lecturer, had four photo exhibits based on his books, and written for National Geographic Traveler and Backpacker.
And he even found time to say nice things about us: “Much of this work, by the way, has come from information on the mediabistro.com website as well as from my travel course.”
