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Here are some
answers to frequently asked questions about me and my project. Have a
question that isn't answered here? Go
ahead, contact me. And if you quote something from here, please be sure
to provide a proper citation/attribution.
Thanks!
- What's
new in your writing world?
A.
Right now, I'm
continuing to build theWAHMmagazine,
which is the only digital magazine for work-at-home parents. I've also
completed my third book, The
Right Words for Any Occasion
(West Side Publishing, an imprint of Publications International), which
is now available for pre orders and will be soon available through
Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Borders. And, I'm also doing my usual
querying for articles and blogging, editing for the quarterly World Energy Magazine and
the monthly World
Energy
Monthly Review,
for which I also contrubute a green
column. I am
also the host of the Cyber Savvy Show on Passionate Internet Voices
Talk Radio, which due to my husband's campaign for State Rep for
Michigan's 22nd district is on hiatus until after the November general
election. Of course, there's another work-in-progress, of an
art-historical nature, but details about that are currently
classified.
- Do
you have a mailing list?
A.
Yes. Interested
parties can subscribe to my mailing list by visiting the contact page.
- Are
you available for interviews/speaking engagements?
A.
Yes. I am
available for e-mail and
telephone interviews. I only tend to do local (Metro Detroit area
speaking engagements or those within a five-hour driving radius, and
depending upon deadlines. It's best to book me far in advance for
speaking engagements. (See contact page or press room for information.)
- Can I
hire
you as an editor?
A.
Yes. Please visit
the editing
page for details.
- Can I
hire
you as a writer?
A.
Yes. For
freelance non
book-length projects you can hire me directly. Publishers and others
with book-length projects need to go through my agent, Robert
Diforio/D4EO Literary Agency. (See contact page for details.)
- Are you
represented by an agent?
A.
Yes. I am
represented by Robert Diforio/D4EO Literary Agency. (See contact page
for details.)
- What's
a
"WAHM"?
A.
"WAHM" stands for
work-at-home
mom.
- What's
that
stuff in the background?
A.
Lorem ipsum,
which is the
"fake" text that page designers use to designate where text should go
but keeps you from getting distracted from reading words that have an
actual meaning. Unfortunately, the drawback of lorem ipsum is that
people who are familiar with Latin and the romance languages tend to
find themselves trying to decipher it.
- What's
theWAHMmagazine?
A.
TheWAHMmagazine
is a subsidiary
publication of Red Pencil Editing Services. It is a bi-monthly digital
magazine for parents who work at home and addresses all of the
challenges and aspects of work-at-home parenting life. It was inspired
from a combination watching the struggle my husband faced when he
wanted to initiate telecommuting and because of the broad range and
quality of resources available for work-at-home parents, WAHMs in
particular. "See a need, fill a need," to quote the movie Robots. It
just made sense to do it.
- How did you get
started writing
and editing?
A.
I guess that you could say that I've always been writing, but aside
from my master's thesis, my first professional writing job while
working as Muriel G.S. Lewis Fellow in the Dept. of the Art of Europe
at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston after graduate school.
Unfortunately, it was from a tragic event that I eneded benefiting,
when the curator who was supposed to co-author the exhibition catalogue
for the North American tour of Monet, Renoir
and the Impressionsist
Landscape. I had already been working on the exhibtion,
doing
provenance research, fact checking and other curatoral tasks assigned
to fellows, so I was very familiar with the content. I asked Dr.
Shackelford, the Chair of the European Dept., if I could take on the
task, and he said that I could, and also agreed when I asked for a
by-line. I contributed ten essays for the exhibition catalogue. I
started editing during graduate school, working at ADPG, a small
publisher in Cambridge, Mass. From there, editing came naturally to me,
and I started freelancing more throughout graduate school and well into
my professional life as an art historian.
- From
where is your writing inspiration derrived?
A.
Everywhere and
everything -- my mind is always working. But, now that I am a mom, a
lot
of my inspiration comes from my
son and watching him discover his world.
- As an editor, what is your
biggest pet peeve?
A. Writers.
- As
a writer, what is your biggest pet peeve?
A. Editors.
- Really?
A.
No. I just thought that it would be funny to put a bit of
self-deprecating humor here since I'm both a writer and an
editor.
I think that both writers and editors will get the joke. I hope. I
don't have a ton of looming, niggling pet peeves, but to read what my
peeve-of-the-moment it's probably best to read my blog, Musings from the Mitten.
- What
else do you do besides writing and editing?
A. I have a lot of
interests but I regularly do hatha
yoga, read (of course), dance and knit. I also love
to cook and spend time with my family; and I play a lot of soccer with
my son. I am also a trained classical violinist and have been playing
for
over 30 years.
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