NSNC member Linda Fulkerson, a blog coach and Internet marketing advisor, found some valuable information at one of her favorite Web sites which she would like to share with other writers. In a guest post at Copyblogger, Demian Farnworth supplies a different suggested reading list for writers and gives a brief reason why each book…
By Dave Lieber www.WatchdogNation.com By now, as a columnist, writer, information entrepreneur, whatever you call yourself these days, you have figured out that the chief currency in this stage of the information age is the keyword search in a search engine of your name. Borrowing from Microsoft’s search engine, when someone looks you…
“In the Driver’s Seat: A Girl’s Guide to Her First Car” is the latest book to be authored by teen advice columnist Erika Stalder. “Women make up more than half of the drivers on the road, but most girls still don’t know the difference between a lug nut and a dipstick,” said the California…
Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation: Bite Back When Businesses and Scammers Do You Wrong, has won its second national book award for social change. The hardcover is the winner of The National Best Books 2009 Award for Social Change. Earlier this year, the book won the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Social Change. The…
NSNC Education Chair Russell Frank reported a new column which made its debut in September at www.statecollege.com. The column will appear every Friday. “I’ll no longer be in the Centre Daily Times,” said Frank, Associate Professor of Communications at Penn State University. Frank worked as a reporter, editor and columnist at newspapers in…
Garret Matthews, a reporter and columnist for the Evansville, Ind., Courier & Press, has published “Favorites”, described as “a collection of newspaper columns about Americana, the likes of which are fading from print.” The book is available for purchase from lulu.com. Also see http://www.newspaperwriter.com Matthews, a Virginia native, worked on the Bluefield, W. Va.,…
Debra Garfinkle – humor columnist and novelist from Orange County, California – was interviewed by the Anaheim Literature Examiner about her writing career. “I always loved to read and write,” she said. “I still do. But I grew up poor, and wanted some financial security. So I majored in economics in college, went to law…
By Samantha Bennett NSNC President Just when we thought we were over our newspapers and turning our faces into the brisk wind of New Media to blog, learn HTML, Tweet or do whatever else is necessary to stay relevant and employed, the Newspaper Research Journal comes out with this: Print editions of newspapers…
By Laura Snyder Nationally Syndicated Columnist As newspapers and columnists continue to evolve, we hold our breath to see what happens next. Every week, we hear of another newspaper closing its doors or another columnist losing his/her job. The reasons are varied, but they boil down to the fact that there is…
Washington state columnist Anne Louise Grimm has several books in the works. Two are being self-published with Xlibris: “Anything Goes, Tedi, Deysha & Glenrose, Too” is a collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories, due to be released soon; and “It’s a Dog’s Life”, as she says “was written by my (immigrant) dog Trixi…
Just a few weeks after the University of Missouri Press released former NSNC President Bill Tammeus’ new book in September, it ordered a second printing. “They Were Just People: Stories of Rescue in Poland During the Holocaust,” by Tammeus and co-author Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn has met with brisk sales and great reviews, including one…
By Dave Lieber Fort Worth Star-Telegram NSNCEF Secretary You’re Kelly Kazek, managing editor of the Athens (Alabama) News Courier, and you just enjoyed one of the biggest days of your life. Your first book was published, and you shared the party with everyone at the town square. As a 5-year member…
by Laura Snyder The future of news is wide open. As columnists, we have a chance to shape how people receive their news by the power of our collective voice. If you have an opinion about how the news industry should work in the future, write a column about it. Imagine the day when no…
“In addition to my Friday column, I’ve been doing a couple times a week blog on the Gettysburg Times website,” John Messenger told fellow columnists on the NSNC Discussions Newslist. He invites us to check him out and leave comments in the comments section. John’s Friday morning columns aren’t online, but there’s talk about including…
By Dave Lieber Fort Worth Star-Telegram Columnist WatchdogNation.com [The following is an abridged version of Dave’s talk at the 2009 Ventura conference.] Originally, this workshop was going to be called “How to have the best writing year of your life.” Then as the economy crashed, we billed this as “Keeping your columnist…
Nationally syndicated award-winning columnist, Saralee Perel, has signed with agent Bob Mecoy for her newest non-fiction book, “Eddie’s Philosophy.” Saralee says, “Eddie the Cat, an NSNC 2008 award-winning columnist, bluntly shares his no-nonsense values, his shenanigans and his life with my husband, Bob, and me. I only wish Eddie didn’t have nine lives. I wish…
Kelly Kazek’s book “Fairly Odd Mother: Musings of a Slightly Off Southern Mom” is being released. The hardcover book contains a collection of Kazek’s award-winning humor columns published in The News Courier and syndicated through Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. News Service. A portion of proceeds will go to Art on the Square, a community arts…
