Editor at Busy Mommy

Earlier this year, Rachel Lister launched Busy Mommy. The site covers all of the major “areas” of being a mom from pregnancy to enviro-mom. I came on board in July as the Work at Home editor. I invite you to check out the opportunities there are to be an editor at Busy Mommy (revenue-sharing) and just to look around and take in information from other mamas on life as a mom.

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Write Non-Fiction in November

Back in September, I read an article in Angela Hoy's Writers' Weekly about a request Angela received to write for free. All of the controversy aside, I liked the idea of Write Non-Fiction in November, and I understood what Nina Amir was doing. Every November thousands of writers scribble furiously into the night, working on the next Great American Novel while those of us who write non-fiction are left sitting by idly. Well, probably not idly, but you get the idea.

Nina Amir launched Write Non-Fiction in November last year as a way to put that challenge on for non-fiction writers. I decided to join this year. I'll be writing a book I'm planning to self-publish and sell mostly locally. The book is a middle-class guide to frugality and will be chock full (I hope) of tips for people who need to tighten up the family purse strings.

My outline puts the manuscript goal at roughly 31,500 words, which is short but will work well for selling myself. Today's my first day working on the project. My goal is to get to 1,500 words (or 10 tips) by the end of the day today. Wish me luck!

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No More KnackParenting.com

KnackParenting.com bit the dust at least as far as writers are concerned. I’m not sure what happened exactly, but we got word through email on Friday that the site wasn’t using writers anymore. So, I’m out that work – just after I was writing about how good it would be as a platform for my writing on charity work. Bah.

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