Is it Time for Metrics in US Recipes? A Q&A with Ten Speed’s Melissa Moore

March 26, 2013

Let’s say you want to write a cookbook, and you live in the USA. Should you write recipes that include metric measurements (liters and grams) in additional to imperial (cups and pounds)? That’s a good question, and one that’s being asked more often these days. First, let’s admit that the US is way behind in [...]

Read the full article →

Writing For Free Issue Goes Viral

March 19, 2013

An argument about getting paid for online work erupted recently, when a respected journalist blogged about an Atlantic Wire editor who asked to repost a long article online for free. What’s unbelievable is that just a few years ago, the Atlantic magazine offered him $21,000 per article for original reporting, and now they’re offering him [...]

Read the full article →

Q&A: The Amateur Gourmet on His Blogging Success

March 12, 2013

Now in his ninth year as a food blogger, Adam Roberts of the Amateur Gourmet shows no sign of slowing. A witty and charming writer, he posts several times a week on restaurant meals, cooking a new dish, hosting dinner parties, and other adventures and experiments. He’s also good at coming up with attention-grabbing posts that go [...]

Read the full article →

Kickstarter Campaign Reaches Nearly $100,000 to Pre-Sell Cookbooks

March 5, 2013

(Disclosure: After working on this post, I bought this cookbook. I love foraging and viewing beautiful images of plants, and these two women impressed me. If you wish to do the same, act now, as time is running out.) Herbalist Dina Falconi teaches people about plants, herbs and foraging in the wild, and has done so for about [...]

Read the full article →

5 Things Literary Agents Say When They Mean No

February 26, 2013

Snagging a literary agent for your book proposal takes nerves of steel. You might have to send a query out to many agents, while telling yourself that it only takes one who’s excited about your book. Most  agents accept only one or two percent of the queries and book proposals they read. They spend a [...]

Read the full article →

Writing Something of Lasting Value

February 19, 2013

The web has made us impatient about our writing. We think that if we start a blog, it should take a few months to impact thousands, or if we write a book, we should finish it within a year. I have often wondered how long it takes to create something of lasting value. Now I have [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →