From writers_deadline at listserv.storm.ca Fri Sep 3 12:27:36 2010 From: writers_deadline at listserv.storm.ca (WD-Listserv) Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:27:36 -0400 Subject: WD - List member's Whitton bio featured in Citizen Message-ID: <4C80E9B8.2638.D38D59@localhost> WD List member, Dave Mullington's bio on Charlotte Whitton --- She haunts us still, our Charlotte Whitton, Ottawa?s mayhem- making mayor. According to a new biography, Whitton?s ghost was once clearly seen wafting out of a wall of her former home on Renfrew Avenue, then floating across the room, four years after she died. The story is related for the first time in The Last Suffragette, a new book by former Citizen writer Dave Mullington to be officially launched next week. Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Kelly+Egan+revives+Whitton+m ystique/3475717/story.html -- Best! -pwm aka Patrick Meikle "The Connector" Moderator - Writers' Deadline!! Listserv http://listserv.storm.ca/mailman/listinfo/writers_deadline Ottawa Writing Resources at: http://www.writersdeadline.ca/ Please use: patrick at writersdeadline.ca for return comments ----------------------------------------------------------------+ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From writers_deadline at listserv.storm.ca Fri Sep 3 16:08:00 2010 From: writers_deadline at listserv.storm.ca (WD-Listserv) Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:08:00 -0400 Subject: WD - Citizen - Publisher and editor In-Reply-To: <29FC587B-464B-4B9B-BA9A-7150AF108C97@llresident.ca> References: <4C7E6081.1742.EABB9D@localhost> Message-ID: <4C811D60.14668.19D53E3@localhost> On 1 Sep 2010 at 18:06, WD-Listserv wrote: > If anyone knows who is the editor and who is the publisher > of the Ottawa Citizen today, > I would like to have that information. Hi Rosaleen, Here is the current "contact us" page for the Ottawa Citizen, naming among others, the Publisher and the Editor-in-chief: James Orban - Publisher (613) 596-3726 jorban at thecitizen.canwest.com -- Gerry Nott - Editor-in-Chief (613) 726-5903 gnott at thecitizen.canwest.com -- http://www.ottawacitizen.com/about-ottawa-citizen/contactus.html Best! -pwm aka Patrick Meikle "The Connector" Moderator - Writers' Deadline!! Listserv http://listserv.storm.ca/mailman/listinfo/writers_deadline Ottawa Writing Resources at: http://www.writersdeadline.ca/ Please use: patrick at writersdeadline.ca for return comments ----------------------------------------------------------------+ From writers_deadline at listserv.storm.ca Fri Sep 3 16:36:41 2010 From: writers_deadline at listserv.storm.ca (WD-Listserv) Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:36:41 -0400 Subject: WD - WFW - Thinking Outside the Book Message-ID: <4C812419.13985.18F7AC11@meikle.storm.ca> Hi all, (If you lose this message, they are archived on the WD site: http://listserv.storm.ca/mailman/listinfo/writers_deadline) --- Here's the latest from the Worldwide Freelance Writer. Their purpose is to publish information about freelance writing markets around the world. ------- Forwarded message follows ------- To: "Patrick Meikle" From: "Worldwide Freelance Writer" Date sent: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:43:20 -0400 Subject: Thinking Outside the Book =================================================================== Worldwide Freelance Writer http://www.worldwidefreelance.com =================================================================== Volume XI : Issue 35 - 29,075 Subscribers - 1 Sept 2010 =================================================================== CREATE YOUR OWN FREELANCE WEBSITE IN JUST 4 DAYS! If you're a freelancer, you NEED a website to compete in today's global marketplace. And AWAI will show you step-by-step how to build your brand new, professional looking website from start to finish in just four days! 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For European writing markets subscribe to our European newsletter at http://www.EUwriter.com =================================================================== FEATURE ARTICLE Think Outside the Book: Profit from Your Writing Today by Scott Jason My first five years as a writer dragged on like ten. I felt like such a failure. I had enough rejection letters from publishers to paper my walls and carpet the floor. I just couldn't understand it. I attended seminars, subscribed to the "right" newsletters and even paid almost two thousand dollars for a copywriting course from one of the nation's "leading copywriting programs." So what was I doing wrong? As it happens, I wasn't doing anything wrong, I was just trying to start out too big. I was trying to begin the journey from the destination and missing the whole point... Writing IS a journey. Now, five years wiser I'd like to share some tips that gave me a taste of success and paid the bills before my first book deal. 1.) 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