Free Class To Watch Anytime: How to be A Better Food Blogger

January 15, 2013

Last week, I took part in a Google+ hangout: A free 1.5-hour panel on How to Be a Better Food Blogger with David Leite of Leite’s Culinaria Holly Hughes of Best Food Writing, and Chef Dennis Littley, who runs the G+ Food Blogger Community. And it was a blast! This was my second public Hangout [...]

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Q&A: David Leite and The One, on Writing about the People You Love

January 8, 2013

It’s never just about the food. Soon enough, your partner or your kids start creeping into your food blog, because you’re writing about your life and they’re inseparable from you. Suddenly a post about baking a red velvet cake includes how you made it for your husband, how your mother used to send you a [...]

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10 Feature Story Formats for Freelancers + Magazine Giveaway

January 2, 2013

When I was a magazine editor, part of my job was to design the perfect mix of feature stories that kept readers turning the pages. I would lay out maybe two trend pieces, two service guides, one how-to, a round-up, and a profile, with different lengths for variety. These types of feature stories are formulaic, [...]

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Q&A: Get Out There and Build Relationships, Says Book Author Nancy Hachisu

December 26, 2012

When I met Nancy Singleton Hachisu in Mexico in 2010, I was taken aback by the sight of another woman in her 50s at a food blogger camp. Over our week together, more surprises came. Nancy had moved to Japan to teach English 22 years earlier, married her English conversation student —- an organic farmer, and [...]

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Whose Fault is It that Food Writing Doesn’t Pay?

December 18, 2012

Every once and a while, I hear resentment. Someone’s to blame about why food writers aren’t paid well for their work. Whose fault is it? Here are the three most common scapegoats: Writers who have partners who work. These writers don’t care if they make a living wage because they don’t need the money. They [...]

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Six Useful How-To Books and Guidebooks For Writers

December 11, 2012

I know. If we’re going to talk about books, you want cookbooks, preferably with luscious photography. Fine. Here are two lists of favorite cookbooks of 2012 from The Washington Post and The Kitchn. Now that you’ve got that out of your system, we can get on with today’s post. In the past few weeks I’ve paged through and marked [...]

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