Displaying posts published in

September 2008

Authonomy Open Beta: HarperCollins is looking for writers

Authonomy’s Open Beta went live last week, and is looking to be a pretty exciting opportunity for aspiring writers. Authonomy looks to be heavily inspired by Zoetrope: It allows authors to post their work in the hope that it generates community buzz. If it does HarperCollins, the site’s owner, will review it for possible publication. [...]

Stay Home and Earn A Masters Degree

Image via Wikipedia Every year it seems there are more schools offering distance learning Master of Fine Arts degrees in creative writing. It only makes sense: Why ask your students to relocate or put the rest of their life on hold when the important thing is for them to sit their butt down and actually [...]

Get A Job You Worthless Lazy Bum! – Freelance Job Boards for Writers

Ready to get off the couch? Your Vampire/Werewolf/Romance just not getting done? Job sucks, kids hate you and dog has worms? Tired of Explaining the difference between a Venti and a tall? C’mon man, I feel your Pain. Sure the Classifieds Suck, but that’s why Tim invented the teh innernets- to make it easy to [...]

Essential WordPress Plugins for Writers

Earlier I gave a list of Essential WordPress Plugins that I use on my websites. A big problem with creating a WordPress site for for writing is trying to differentiate it from the millions of other personal blogs. We see this with Programmers, Designers, Photographers and Artists. Throw up a template, and you look like [...]