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#61 All About Mom Rage with Minna Dubin

A conversation with the author of Mom Rage, Minna Dubin…

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#60 Shutter Secrets: Searching For and Using Photos in Your Writing

Most of my guests on Freelance Writing Direct are people that I know or have learned about from other colleagues and friends.…

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Writing That Gets Noticed is Now an Official NYU Journalism Course

Hi everyone, I’m so excited to share a piece of good news today with all of you that I’ve been sitting on waiting for it to become a reality!…

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#59 All About Teri Rizvi and the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop

I met Teri Rizvi back at the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop  in 2018, I believe. She asked me to do a speed dating session for writers and I had such a great time doing it.…

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#58 Writing About Historical Subjects with Audrey Clare Farley

Welcome to all my new subscribers. I’m so happy that Freelance Writing Direct is now one year old! You can look at Podcasts to see all the episodes, including ones with Cheryl Strayed, Ann Hood, and assigning editors Noah Michelson, Alan Henry, and more.…

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#57 Writing About the Medical Industry and The Cost of Living

Welcome to all my new subscribers. I’m so happy that Freelance Writing Direct is now one year old! You can look at Podcasts to see all the episodes, including ones with Cheryl Strayed, Ann Hood, and assigning editors Noah Michelson, Alan Henry, and more.…

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#56 Writing About Food With Laura Burak, and I’m in Inc. Magazine

Welcome to all my new subscribers. I’m so happy that Freelance Writing Direct is now one year old! You can look at Podcasts to see all the episodes, including ones with Cheryl Strayed, Ann Hood, and assigning editors Noah Michelson, Alan Henry, and more.…

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#55 Parenting and Productivity with Milda De Voe and New Events

I first met Milda De Voe a few years before the pandemic. We were introduced by Marcelle Soviero who was then the editor of the fabulous former literary publication Brain, Child, I regularly wrote for.…

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# 54 Behind Publishing Confidential with Kathleen Schmidt

I reached out to  Kathleen Schmidt after she presented a webinar on book publishing for Women’s Media Group, an organization we both belong to.…

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I Spoke at the Annual Writer’s Digest Conference in August

I have been so remiss in writing this post. I spoke at the Writer’s Digest annual conference in NYC this year again at the end of August, and, as usual, had an amazing time.…

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#53 From Poetry to Middle Grade Fiction to Molecule

I first met Kevin Carey when he was a guest speaker for my NYU class on Micro Memoir when he spoke about the micro memoir site Molecule.…

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#52 A Conversation with Claire Dederer about Monsters

I took a class with Claire Dederer at Hedgebook on memoir years ago, and she always stuck out in my mind as a writing teacher who really knew her stuff.…

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