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ASJA
 Expand your freelance writing network. Sharpen your skills. And learn from editors and experts who write for some of the nation's top publications: The Washington Post, Mother Jones and Politico. A Capital Event will help you make the most of your freelance career, and it will meet you at any stage of you career development. Early bird discounts are available through July 31. Reserve your spot today for ASJA's regional conference on Aug. 28.
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Jen Reeder, ASJA
 There have been two times in my writing career when it was nearly impossible to meet a deadline. The first was after Hurricane Katrina blew me out of New Orleans. My husband and I were stressed from evacuating and still had a missing friend, but I had a looming deadline for a travel article for Lousiana Cookin’ about the Creole Nature Trail. The story seemed trivial in the wake of the tragedy, and I asked my editor if she still needed it, noting that the region had sustained extensive damage from Hurricane Rita soon after Katrina. But she still wanted it: some of the NOLA-based staff were working out of an RV in Baton Rouge, trying desperately to stay on schedule. I couldn’t let them down. I would have preferred to binge watch the news and call friends and family – wallow, really – but I had to buckle down and pull the story together.
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Writer Beware
Authors: have you received an unsolicited email from a "talent scout" at #WORLDCLASS Magazine pitching an interview and/or cover feature? Here's what you need to know in case you do: it's pay-to-play.
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Publishers Weekly
In 1996, Lou Kasischke survived one of the worst disasters in the history of Mt. Everest. A sudden storm blew in, stranding climbers and ultimately killing eight people. A few years after the tragedy, Kasischke wrote After the Wind, his highly personal account of the event and his wife's role in his survival.
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Columbia Journalism Review
The mission sounds simple: Pay writers and edit their work. This is not revolutionary, nor should it be, given journalism's sepia-tinted legacy of pensions and expense accounts. But the idea was enough to draw more than 100 writers to Slant, a slick publisher-platform hybrid that launched in late June to server-busting traffic numbers.
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GalleyCat
The American Booksellers Association, the Authors Guild of America, and two other groups together representing thousands of authors, agents, and indie booksellers, are asking that the U.S. Dept. of Justice examine Amazon's practices for antitrust violations.
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Tampa Bay Times via Poytner
"Nobody reads newspapers anymore." You hear that line so often that even some of our most loyal fans start to feel a little sheepish that they still want the ink-on-paper version of what we do. "I know I’m in the minority," they sometimes tell me.
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Writer's Digest
Many writers hear that they should start blogging to build their platform, help them get published, or sell more books. But is blogging right for you and your career? If so, what should you blog about? And perhaps most importantly, how can you do it effectively and without wasting important time you could spend on paying work?
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