The NthWord

My favorite new magazine is one I'm admittedly I'm in.

The nthWord issue #6 is out with a piece by me on advertising getting back to selling. I wrote in this winter even before The Search for the World's Greatest Salesperson debuted but selling was obviously on my mind.

I like the creativity and sensibility of nthWORD. If you flip through the current issue and the archive you'll see what I mean about what they choose to include and how they present it.

From their mission statement: The nthWORD is an online magazine that serves as an exhibition for writers and visual artists. Our purpose is to transmit a juxtaposition of visual and textual information to people who are passionate about ideas, words, and images.

Thanks nthWORD for letting me a part of Issue #6.

Instant Gratification Was Fast Enough

I just finished my five-week writing class, "Instant Gratification Isn't Fast Enough."

Let by Susan Shapiro, it was a terrific hands-on, uber-practical, no-nonsense dive into the world of creating and selling your work to publications. She does a great job of demystifying publishing and also fostering a workshop-like environment and giving tough critique to work we bring in based on her curriculum. Excited, too, to have so quickly built up a bit of a better nonfiction portfolio and know better how to creatework that sells and even have started to send out some of the essays, op-eds, and service pieces.

Sue Shapiro, a journalism professor at The New School and NYU, also has a new book Speed Shrinking coming out August 4. Pre-order it here. Sure to be hilarious.