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Keep Up! Read These 17 Useful Links for Food Writers And Bloggers
Who has time to keep up with everything going on in our food writing world? You do! Just click on the peachy links below, especially the fun ones. This list first appeared in my last quarterly...
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How Denise Vivaldo Uses Optimism to Develop a Thick Skin
You’re doing fine until someone makes a snide remark on social media. Then a literary agent says your book idea won’t sell, and two editors haven’t responded to your story pitches. Soon you’re having...
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Woo Hoo! I’m Teaching in Dubai
I’m thrilled to return to Dubai, that hot, impossibly complicated and dizzying place of high rises, including the world’s tallest building. It was more than 100 degrees on my first trip in September...
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An Agent Answers: “What Should I Expect for a Cookbook Advance?”
A guest post by Sally Ekus Every time I talk with a new author or perspective client they ask the same question: “What can I expect for an advance?” I tell them $250,000. No wait, that was a dream I...
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Submit Your Writing Now to Lucky Peach
Looking for a paid outlet for your food writing? Recently Lucky Peach launched a new website featuring “daily essays, recipes, restaurant recommendations, comics, and other miscellany,” says editor...
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Eating Well in Dubai and Egypt
I’m just back from two weeks away, teaching in Dubai and vacationing in Egypt. I have so much to say about this trip and the foods I ate but I will try to condense it into a few paragraphs: 1. Dubai...
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Giveaway: A New, Up-to-Date Edition of Will Write for Food
At last! I started working on this edition last year and I couldn’t tell you about it until now. The third edition of Will Write for Food, completely updated and with a new chapter on making money,...
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4 Ways to Use Instagram Strategically
A guest post by Cheryl Sternman Rule In our social media ocean, most of us swim, flail, float, glide, and sputter, sometimes all in a single day. We do our best not to drown as we navigate crowded...
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Giveaway: The United States of Pizza
The suspense has been killing me. It’s finally time to to tell you about the cookbook chef Craig Priebe and I co-wrote, The United States of Pizza. It comes out September 22, 2015, and today it’s...
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Blogger Finds Famous Cookbook Recipe Doesn’t Work, but He’s Happy
When a high-end cookbook recipe doesn’t work, how can this story have a happy ending? Somehow, it does. First, a little backstory. Remember when Julie Powell started her career-changing food blog, The...
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How a Weekly Get-Together Grew Into a Powerful Support Group
A guest post by Emma Christensen I love working from home. My own schedule. My own space. Peace. Quiet. No one randomly stopping by my cubicle and interrupting my flow. But even for a consummate...
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Of Dresses and Events Coming Up
The third edition of Will Write for Food came out last week, and I’ve been busy with promotion. I love in-person events best because I get to see people in real life versus virtual, and wear dresses....
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How to Successfully Cold Call for Food Writing Jobs
As you saw in my post about the new edition of Will Write for Food, my new chapter focuses on how to make money as a food writer, which interests an increasing number of food bloggers. Food blogger...
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Cookbook Publicist Dishes on What Works and What to Expect
Want to know more about cookbook launches and how to work with your publisher? Chef Craig Priebe and I are working with our publicist Ron Longe on promotion for The United States of Pizza (due out...
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15 Must-Read Links for Food Writers and Bloggers
Looking for good reads online? Want to drive more traffic to your blog, keep up with social media trends, cookbook trends, and food writing trends? Yeah, me too. But who has time to find quality stuff?...
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5 Reasons Not to Bash Food Bloggers
Last week the New Yorker featured a snarky piece on food bloggers, called So You want to Write a Food Blog. Yes, it’s cute and clever, but wrong. My main gripe is that the writer — Julia Edelman, a...
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“Blogger Blackmail” Surfaces as a Trend
How ironic. Last week I wrote a post defending hobby bloggers. This week the subject is “blogger blackmail!” By now you may have heard about the Twitter thread called #bloggerblackmail. It chronicles,...
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Love Italy? Enter My Book Giveaway: Eating Rome
Ever since journalist Elizabeth Minchilli started a blog, Elizabeth Minchilli in Rome, in 2009, she’s been leading food tours, creating apps on where to eat in Italy, taking videos of chefs and cooks,...
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What’s Your Biggest Question About Finding Your Voice?
I can’t tell you how many times food bloggers and interviewers ask me “What can I do to make my blog stand out?” My answer is always the same. The best food bloggers have a strong voice. But what,...
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Beautiful Cookbooks with Stories and Personality Sell Best, Says Editor
I’ve been bugging Julie Bennett, vice president and editorial director at Ten Speed Press, for an interview, ever since we met at a conference a year ago. It’s because Ten Speed publishes so many...
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