Okay, it’s official. Our business is growing!
I’d like to introduce you all to the newest member of our company. This is Dorothy Maeja Brewer. You may call her Dot.

This absolutely perfect little girl was born on Saturday, January 26th. After 38 hours of labor (let’s all take a moment to send Lorna a hearty [...]

We’ve got an exciting line up of guest bloggers filling in during the next few weeks while Lorna cherishes every moment of her hard-earned maternity leave.
We’d like to give some special thanks today’s featured writer, Allena Tapia.  Allena can be found pretty much anywhere freelance-writing-related, including About.com, WritersUnbound, and Parenting Diva.
Seriously, this woman is everywhere.
With one half of [...]

We live in Spokane, WA. For those of you who don’t know where we are, we are on the eastern side of the state of Washington — on the other side of the mountains and about as far away from Seattle as you can get. We usually get plenty of snow during the winter.
But rarely [...]

1. Are you a self-starter?
Most people like the idea of being a freelancer because it means they get to be their own bosses. This is a noble pursuit; the joys of setting your own hours, making your own money, and directly communicating with your own clients are manifold. Unfortunately, being your own boss also includes the [...]

My recently launched initiative to get up a few hours early every morning to get some blissful, uninterrupted writing time isn’t really working. I accept some of the blame for this, since getting up early has never been something I love doing, and I don’t always manage to get up when I had planned. But, [...]

I love to Google things. I Google names to see if people I know appear. I Google obscure words to see if I’m spelling them correctly. I Google businesses to find addresses and addresses to find maps. I love it. I even periodically Google myself.
There are few among us who have not yet Googled our [...]

One of the primary reasons I relish my job as a freelance writer is that I love being cut off from face-to-face, interpersonal connections. With the exception of my husband, my daughter, Lorna, and my Starbucks barista, I can go days without making contact with the outside world.
So imagine my dismay when a recent job [...]

So, I’ve done a pretty good job so far of not ranting during this series on grant writing, even though I warned you I might. Well, all bets are off now, because this is where I’m going to tell you about some of the not-so-pleasant aspects of grant writing. Actually, the writing itself [...]

Yesterday we started our little series here on how you can make grant writing a viable part of your freelance writing business. Check out “How to Write a Grant - Part I” to get caught up on Where to Look and What to Look For. Now we’re going to move into a bit more of [...]

OK, now that I’ve been writing this post for nearly an hour, I can see that it’s going to need to be broken up into sort of a “tutorial series” on grant writing. We’ll call this Part I, wherein we examine how to choose good grant writing clients and where to start looking for funding. [...]