Sync Magazine Closes
It’s an unfortunate reality of the journalism and publishing business that magazines don’t succeed. And that sometimes they are given up for dead by the media conglomerates that own them. And so goes the fate of Sync. About twenty of the magazine’s employee’s will be laid off or transferred to other areas of the Ziff…
continue readingAhhh, the Free Rein of the Successful
Joe Queenan is one of my favorite writers and his New York Times book review of Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies by Greg Crister makes me realize how nice it must be to have free rein from editors. As aspiring authors, we often aren’t given room to run,…
continue readingStrauss Cover Story
Bestselling author Neil Strauss, who we recently interviewed, has the cover story for the new issue of Rolling Stone. Strauss travelled to London to interview Madonna and the piece, How Madonna Got Her Groove Back, describes her recovery from an equestrian accident, her work on the new albumn, and the various “Madonna moments” that people…
continue readingCall for Geeky Inclined Writers
Slushpile techie patron saint John is also an editor at computer publisher Apress and he’s “looking for a few good writers. I edit a line “after-hours” books – fun with Lego, gadgetry, etc. and I’m looking for folks who might get a kick out of writing books on the things they love rather then high-tech…
continue readingI’m Not Sure If You’ll Have To Pay The Money Or If They’ll Pay You The Money
Unusual item posted on eBay… I think the point here is that you have to pay $250,000 to get in on this action. Or maybe they will pay you a quarter million to write the story. I dunno. But “looking for a writer who is interested in collaborating on a true crime story. Invoves Fed.…
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