Journalistic Ethics, Concern Trolls & Other Meaty Matters
Is there such a thing as journalistic purity? Can you expect rationality from a troll? These are some of the meaty matters I discuss here.
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Edie Jarolim is a writer and editor living in Tucson, Arizona. Sign up on this blog to get updates about her humorous tell-all/memoir, GETTING NAKED FOR MONEY: An Accidental Travel Writer Reveals All.
Life After Kickstarter, 1: Your Book Had Better Not Suck
During this post-Kickstarter limbo period, I reflect on the benefits beyond the financial ones of my campaign, on living up to my contributors’ expectations, and more.
I’ve Looked at Copy from Both Sides Now: Straddling the Editorial Desk
Think travel writing is glamorous — and lucrative? This excerpt from Getting Naked for Money will change your mind.
What Caitlyn Jenner & My Kickstarter Have in Common
I was quick to rush to judgment on Caitlyn Jenner, especially on the age inappropriateness of her pose. Maybe I should look in the mirror.
Dispatches from the Final Week of My Kickstarter Campaign
Lessons learned from a Kickstarter campaign include forgoing pride, being persistent, and moving on when something doesn’t work. And being shameless.
The Cactus Bowl Commences! New Kickstarter Mini-Contest
With 9 days left in the Kickstarter campaign, I’m upping the ante, and putting loyalty to my adopted home on the line. If enough new contributors vote for Team Phoenix-Scottsdale vs Team Tucson, I will tweet allegiance to another city!
Kickstarter Challenge: We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Cupcakes
Keeping it real: this strategy to focus attention on the campaign uses social media in the old fashioned sense, a direct connection between friends
5 Travel Books That Won’t Help You Plan a Holiday
As part of our Summer Reading series, guidebook author Jules Brown choses 5 travel books that will not help you plan a vacation (or, as he puts it, because he is a Brit, a holiday).
Lydia Davis Is In My Kickstarter Video
One of the most unlikely people to turn up in a Kickstarter video — or a deli — Lydia Davis has nevertheless been in both with me.
How I Came to Love Food Writing: Gault Millau & My Veal Parmigiana Epiphany
I was not very sophisticated about food when I started editing the Gault Millau guides at Prentice Hall Press, but was very open to learning after my 6th grade veal parmigiana epiphany.
5 Books That Transport You to Other Worlds
What are you reading this summer? What would you suggest others peruse? My summer reading series kicks off with five books that transport us to other worlds, selected by Judith Fein
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Emily Hancock
Patricia Armstrong
