Oh My Goodness, I Want This Job (and would rock it so hard)

by Marian Schembari on March 7, 2010


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How important is my blog’s design?

by Marian Schembari on March 4, 2010

About a month ago I considered paying someone to do my blog redesign because I felt it wasn’t snazzy or professional enough to do the job. Now that I’m 100% self employed I figured my website was THE most important thing I’ve got going for me.

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My name is Marian and I am a Comment Whore

March 2, 2010

The other night I was checking my email while a friend was over. I saw that someone had commented on my blog – which always gets me goin’ -  so I went to check on this awesomeness. After seeing that my most recent post had 19 comments (a HUGE amount for someone like me) I [...]

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3 Annoying Comments Other Bloggers Made

February 22, 2010

The Facebook ads I posted back in July resulted in a little bit of press, mostly due to the awesome Debbie Stier of HarperStudio, but also because I’m absurdly cool. Some of that press wasn’t so positive, and since another pretty negative blog post cropped up recently I want to address some of the factors [...]

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In which I consider a move across the country and plead for some unbiased insight

February 19, 2010

I’m pretty sure (about 97%) that I’m moving to Portland. Oregon.

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On New Blogs: Questions to ask yourself

February 18, 2010

A Twitter friend of mine, Paul Snyder, sent me an email yesterday wondering how to go about starting a new blog. Why he chose to ask me, I have no idea, but it got me thinking anyway.

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The New Farm System: Scouting Blogs and (Not) Sharing Secrets

February 12, 2010

By most accounts, the 2010 Digital Book World Conference delivered on its promise of “practicality, not punditry”, but that doesn’t mean it was perfect. One notable misstep was “The New Farm System: Scouting Blogs and Self-Publishers for Commercial Books” session. With panelists representing ICM, Simon & Schuster and Gotham Books, expectations were high, but by [...]

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Twitter Rules I Wish More People Would Start Following (get it? “following”? teehee)

February 11, 2010

Experience comes with time, and the longer on Twitter the better I understand it and the more frustrated I get with people who are just starting out. I’m aware, by the way, of what I horrible bitch I am.

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8 Things I’ve Learned from Working Retail

February 9, 2010

You know how people say everyone should work as a waiter so we know how to be better restaurant-goers? Well, everyone should work in retail. Mostly to make me stopping wanting to kill people.

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What I’ve Learned About Writing For Other People

February 3, 2010

The past month or so has been interesting for my writing career. I’ve stopped just writing for myself because the occasional person has offered to exchange my writing for the green stuff. Which is weird. But awesome. Weird because ever since I was a kid I wanted to be a writer. I kept a little [...]

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