The ASJA Monthly

I land a new magazine or website as a client, one I’m really happy to be writing for. One I’ve been trying to crack for a while. I get my first assignment. And then the contract arrives.

All rights. Work made for hire.… Continue Reading

When I recently heard that Condé Nast magazines — The New Yorker, Wired, Vanity Fair, and others — were requiring contributors to give the publisher exclusive movie and other performance rights to their work for up to twelve months after publication, I remembered an event of my early years as a freelance writer.… Continue Reading

“Be careful what you wish for” is what my mother used to say. So I was excited, elated and a nervous wreck when I found out that my previously self-published memoir, Replacement Child, was picked up by Seal Press/Perseus for a March 2013 release.… Continue Reading

This month Sally Abrahms, who specializes in aging and Boomers and writes a weekly AARP blog for family caregivers, will moderate a panel at the Chicago Boomer Business Summit, part of the American Society on Aging conference

In January, SATW president Lillian Africano created and moderated a number of panels at The New York Times Travel Show at the Javits Center

Hilary Davidson’s third novel, Evil In All Its Disguises — about the mysterious disappearance of a journalist on a press trip in Acapulco—will be published by Forge on March 5.… Continue Reading

Q: I could spend my life doing social media, and it seems I am, more and more. I have no idea where I should be spending time or how much time I should spend tweeting, on Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+, or Tumblr.  What do you recommend and what has benefitted you most, writing-wise?  I understand it’s all about building relationships, but I can’t do them all (I don’t think).  Any advice you have would be most helpful.… Continue Reading

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd
Random House
210 pages, $26

Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd began collaborating in 1973 when Kidder was a hungry writer hoping to earn a living as a book author and magazine freelancer and Todd was an editor at The Atlantic Monthly.… Continue Reading