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Alison Stein Wellner, who’s teaching our new Travel Writing Workshop, and Monica Bhide, who’s back with her well-received Intro to Food Writing course, are offering students a chance to win a free basic-level class, a $125 value. All you have to do is sign up for one of them (or both) and you’ll be entered […]

Writer Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell is doing a book giveaway on her blog on this summer. On Tuesdays, she’ll be posting interviews with authors, who’ll be offering a copy of their book to one lucky blog reader. All readers have to do is read the interview, click on “comments” and ask a writing-related question of the […]

Wordwych won this week’s Wednesday Fun prize with her Barry Manilow mondegreen from “Looks Like We Made It.” Please contact me off board so I can send you a $10 iTunes gift card. Oh my gosh, these were all so funny. Thanks to everyone for participating. Have a great weekend! [db]
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It’s almost May, and I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to think about what I’ll do for my summer vacation. Last summer, my husband, my cat Ginger and I went to Mount Tremblant in Quebec. We rented a cabin in the woods, my husband took a Skip Barber racing school, Ginger hunted for […]

Last week we held a drawing from among the people who had signed up for our fabulous Renegade Writer E-courses. Congratulations to Kelly Kingman, who signed up for Pat Curry’s course on writing for trade magazines. Kelly won a half-hour phone mentoring session with Diana and me.
It’s not too late to sign up for our […]

Earlier this week, I was shopping when Earth, Wind & Fire’s “That’s the Way of the World” started playing over the store’s music system. I love this song. Hey, I’m a child of the 70s, so go ahead, laugh at me … I don’t care. It brings me back to a happy time of banana […]

Today’s the last day to enter your name to win a free telephone mentoring session with Diana and Linda. All you have to do is sign up for one of the Renegade Writer e-courses, some of which are filling fast and starting soon:
*Building a high-paying career with trade magazines with Pat Curry, starts Monday, April […]

A new session of the Renegade Writer e-courses is starting on April 28 — we have travel writing, food writing, and more great choices! If you’ve already signed up for a course, or if you sign up for one by end of business this Friday, you’ll be entered into a drawing to win a free […]

RW blog reader Tiffani handily won the match the movie to the state contest with a total of 47 points. Congrats, Tiffani! A gift certificate from Fandango is heading your way.
I was amazed by how many movies you all came up with! My Delaware was “American Splendor” and Rhode Island was “Reversal of Fortune.” Remember […]

One thing I like to do when I have a long drive is make up trivia games for myself. I’m not a big radio fan, and as much as I like my iPod, it’s too distracting when I’m behind the wheel. Today I had to drive 1 1/2 hours each way for an interview, so […]