Archive for October, 2006

Free Stuff!

If you know me at all,  you know that I am all about getting free stuff. And I’m in heaven now that I’ve found freebiefanatic.com. I mean, just look at it! This site has  hundreds of free articles on topics like free stuff for babies, free wedding stuff, free food, free coupons, free stuff for pets, [...]


Call for Senior Writers

Well, I’m only 51 so I don’t know if they’ll take my story, but I sent one anyway. It’s an anthology called “I Didn’t Get Old Being Stupid” and they are calling for personal stories of 300-700 words. It pays $100 and a copy of the book due out in October 2007. The deadline is [...]


CouponChief.Com

If you are a spend thrift like me, you can’t miss checking out this site! It is exclusively about coupons, discounts with no catches at stores like Target, Best Buy, Amazon, and many other major retailers. 
I had never heard of CouponChief.Com until today, but I have already found a coupon I want to use at [...]


Do You Write Everyday?

One piece of advice I have read over and over since I started writing full-time is that I should write everyday, and I don’t think the pros giving this advice meant on my blogs.
BUT, and as you can see, this is a big BUT, sometimes I don’t feel like writing, I am not inspired to [...]


Become a Postie and We Both Make Money

For those of you who read my blog regularly, you know that since October 5th I have been posting advertisements between some of my regular posts. In that time I have made over $170. I could have made much more, for with the PPP program, I can post as many as three ads per day per [...]


Soaps.Com

I was the writer/editor/web manager for the show “As the World Turns” for Soaps.com from July-September of 2006.


Two Promising-looking Markets

This first one makes me wish I lived in New Jersey.
EDITOR SOUGHT
English is my 2nd language and I need somebody with beautiful English and experience in marketing writing to do some editing for me. I usually write business letters, website articles, blog, estimates, etc. In the perfect world I would email my article to [...]


You Just Gotta Enter This Contest!

It starts today. The Home Office From Hell Contest is being sponsored by Dell and Trump University. Freelance writers, WAHM’s, all of you out there who work from home, just give the best 10 reasons why you need to move out of your home office from hell.
Here’s what the Grand Prize winner receives:
1. 12 months rent [...]


Unfinished Story #5

Two failed marriages, two house payments behind, two kids with a less-than-stellar mother, fired from two jobs in less than two years; Karen Freeman had stopped believing in second chances.

“Why did I let you talk me into this?” she snarled at her best friend, Judy, as they stepped into the past. It was [...]


Unfinished Story #4

When the verdict was handed down, tears of anger are slapped from the eyes of Amy Quinn. She’s helpless to stop herself from looking at George Cook, who’s waiting for her to glance his way, his beady eyes laughing with demonic glee, a child molester turned loose to destroy more innocent lives. Harold lays [...]