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By Claudia Suzanne, ASJA
 In a 2009 U.S. News and World Report article, Marty Nemko labeled ghostwriting one of the "best careers" for writers.
It certainly has been for me. After 25 years and nearly 140 books since ghostwriter Dick Coté counted his fellows and dubbed me No. 46, I can honestly say ghostwriting has been a fascinating, frustrating, educational, disconcerting, mind-blowing, fun, and (thankfully) profitable experience.
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ASJA
Companies love writers who are in the know about SEO. Writers with up-to-date SEO skills are often hired by cream-of-the-crop clients. On Oct. 21 you have the chance to hear from our guest expert Heather Lloyd-Martin, or as Forbes Magazine calls her, the pioneer in SEO copywriting.
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Los Angeles Times
Svetlana Alexievich is a voice of the people. The Belarusian journalist who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in literature for a body of work that she has described as "a history of human feelings" has long written not only as a witness, but also as a collector of witnesses, a framer of testimonies, a teller of the secret stories as opposed to the official histories.
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The WRITER
Across the genres, suspense novels hook readers from page one and keep them tearing through to the end. We asked mystery and thriller authors how to build suspense in fiction. “Create an expectation in the readers for what’s going to happen next (let them think they’re ahead of the author) and then do something completely different. Then you have them in the palm of your hand for the rest of the book.”
— Blake Crouch, The Wayward Pines trilogy
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USA Today
Gannett, the publishing company that owns USA TODAY and media businesses in 92 local markets, said that it has agreed to buy Journal Media Group for about $280 million, following through on a strategy of acquiring additional local news outlets after it was spun off from its former parent in June. Shareholders of Milwaukee-based Journal Media Group will receive $12 a share in cash. That is a 45 percent premium from the Wednesday closing price of $8.30.
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The Oklahoman
As an author, Jordan Dane, a former energy sales manager in Oklahoma, has had experience with publishing houses as well as self-publishing. She compares the benefits of self-publishing to what a traditional publisher might offer.
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Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly called Jewels of Allah, Nina Ansary's examination of the feminist movement in Iran, "incisive [and] intellectually robust … a riveting portrait of the Iranian woman: her strength, resilience, suffering and hope." The book actually began as Ansary's doctoral dissertation, but encouragement from her professors as well as her own beliefs convinced her to turn "a very dry doctoral thesis into something that would be educational, entertaining, and accessible" to the general public.
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NPR
 Analysis finds that 4-in-5 course readings in the field of international relations are written by men. Female professors are 36 percent more likely to offer readings that have female authors.
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Writer's Digest
Do you have a humongous file of material sitting on your desktop? Is it crammed with stuff that relates to your book … notes from your reading, and maybe some thoughts about a film or a television program you've just seen, all of really important? And then one day you find that the already fat file has swelled to two hundred pages! Aargh.
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