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I’m happy to announce that I have been selected a FELLOW of Society for Technical Communication (STC), the largest professional organization in my field, technical communications. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank my STC Washington, DC – Baltimore chapter and especially my colleagues Carolyn Kelley Klinger, Lori Meyer, Viqui Brown Sherman Dill, and…

  Here are the 3 Top Factors to Make a Living as a Writer… Be humble. Be smart. And have a blue-collar attitude towards your work. HUMBLE The chances are you’ll die nobody knowing your name. Accept that you won’t write the GAN (Great American Novel). Accept that you are not a Sallinger, Faulkner, or…

Is There a Good or Bad Time to Publish a Book? Every day is a good day to publish a book. Why? Because there are just too many variables that we cannot control out there. Trends change. Momentous social events shift the mood and reader interest. What feels like a good and interesting book may look…

There are so many myths about getting rich through copywriting. I’d like to debunk some of them. First of all, copywriting is not about good creative writing in the sense that poem or novel writing is. It is all about helping your client make money. It’s about selling goods and services. To do that you need to write copy…