Here’s a 20-minute radio interview I did yesterday (March 6th) with superstar NPR interviewer Megan Sukys on “The Beat,” an afternoon Puget Sound show on 94.9 KUOW that has a bit of an artsy, entrepreneurial bent. Hear what practical steps I recommend taking before fleeing the cube — and how you can avoid the same mistakes I made when I first set out on my own. Have yourself a grand old listen.
Add comment March 7th, 2007
In case I haven’t mentioned it in the last five minutes, I have a reading Thursday night at 7 p.m. at the University Book Store in Seattle. Here’s the info. Hell, here’s the info for all my March/April readings in Puget Sound area.
SEATTLE - Thursday, March 1, 7 p.m.
University Book Store
4326 University Way NE, Seattle
(800) 335-7323
BELLINGHAM - Tuesday, March 20, 7:30 p.m.
Village Books
1200 Eleventh Street, Bellingham, WA
(360) 671-2626
KIRKLAND - Thursday, March 29, 7:00 p.m.
Parkplace Books
348 Parkplace Center (at Third Street South), Kirkland, WA
(425) 828-6546
NORTH SEATTLE - Thursday, April 12, 7 p.m.
Third Place Books
17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park (North Seattle)
(206) 366-3333
More event info — including my first two New York dates! — here. Thanks for playing. We will resume our normal newsy, tipster, and anti 9-to-5 profile programming any minute now, just as soon as I get these two copywriting projects off my plate and out of my hair.
5 comments February 28th, 2007
Dudes, it’s my big fat Anti 9-to-5 World Cybertour, only without the stadiums or rocking concert jerseys. (Though if anyone would like to help design and/or coordinate the latter, I’m all over it. Email me.)
First stop up on the Anti 9-to-5 World Cybertour, one of my top 5 desert island blogs, The Renegade Writer — virtual home of Linda Formichelli and Diana Burrell, authors of The Renegade Writer and Query Letters That Rock (two books every freelance writer should have). In my Q&A with The Renegade Writer, I talk about why I wrote a career guide for women, what it takes to work for yourself, and how freelance writers can continuously strive for bigger and better gigs. See for yourself.
There is no official schedule for my Anti 9-to-5 World Cybertour. From time to time, I’ll do Q&As or guest posts on other people’s blogs. And I’ll of course link to them here so you can raise your lighters and revel in all the anti 9-to-5 glory.
Add comment February 28th, 2007
Evidently I do know JACK. You can now listen to the podcast of my interview with Kimi Kline of Seattle’s 96.5 JACKfm, which aired this past weekend. Kimi and I dish on the dreaded Sunday Slump before the workweek begins, ways to break into self-employment, and what not to do as a newbie fempreneur. Check it out.
Add comment February 20th, 2007
What does an author doing a live radio interview at 4 a.m. in her bathrobe sound like? And how does she respond when her interviewer asks if her “practical career advice for women who think outside the cube” applies to guys, too?
Listen to the replay of Jim Blasingame’s Small Business Advocate radio show from earlier this morning to find out. I’m the first of the four interviews on the show.
Add comment February 20th, 2007
The fabulous Ariel Meadow Stallings — author, blogger, and friend extraordinaire — took some great shots of my book launch shindig at Elliott Bay Book Company this weekend. Here are her top shots. And here’s the whole series, for those of you who don’t want to miss a morsel.
Thanks to those of you who came to hear me read and crack jokes indoors on the nicest day we’ve had in Seattle in about eight months. If you missed the launch shindig, there are plenty more author events where that one came from.
And if you’d like to meet Ariel, she’s reading from her new book, Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides, this Tuesday, February 20th, at University Bookstore in Bellevue. (Details here.) I will be there. Will you?
5 comments February 19th, 2007
Erm, did I mention I was having a book launch party tomorrow? For those of you in the Seattle area who haven’t received my 119 reminders, here are the details:
What: Author reading and book release party
When: Saturday, February 17, 2 p.m.
Where: Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 South Main Street, Pioneer Square, Seattle
More deets: Co-presented with Hedgebrook. Reception — complete with snacks and bevvies — to follow at 3 p.m. at the Hedgebrook office down the block (216 First Avenue South, Suite 430). If you make it, please introduce yourself! I absolutely want to meet you!
OK, back to le party planning for this girl. More anti 9-to-5 tips, tidbits, and profiles headed your way once the party is behind me.
2 comments February 16th, 2007
In this snarktastic roundup of five new business/career books (including mine), the New York Post sets out to eviscerate everything in its path. In the parallel universe that the Post lives in, my book has a pink cover, only appeals to chick lit fans (because everyone knows that’s all Bust and Bitch subscribers read), and offers great advice if you have a rich boyfriend.
Still, I’m honored to be simultaneously deemed a “guru” and dissed by such a well-read publication, along with some high-profile books I saw prominently displayed in my local bookstores. And my boyfriend (who neither supports nor lives with me) was thrilled to hear that he’s suddenly rich.
But he just has one question: When will his big fat Rich Boyfriend Check arrive?
10 comments February 12th, 2007
Hey early birds, you can catch my first radio interview ever this Sunday (February 11th) from 6:30 to 7 a.m. PST. The show, “Conversations,” with host Lizz Sommers, which I taped last week, airs on three Seattle stations. I’ll be on for about 30 minutes and will be talking about — what else? — career change for those who aren’t afraid to buck the system. Here’s where you can listen:
Add comment February 9th, 2007
Canadian Living magazine is now featuring two excerpts from The Anti 9-to-5 Guide. Check ‘em out online:
Quiz: What’s your perfect job? If you’ve got half a brain, you’ll find those “What Type of Job Is Right for Me?” quizzes on the web about as useful as your weekly horoscope. How you really feel about sharing a four-by-six-foot space with a hygienically challenged, socially stunted coworker usually has zilch to do with the meager multiple-choice options these tests offer. Read more.
8 simple rules for negotiating flex work Just because you’d like to set your own hours or work from home doesn’t mean your employer will share the sentiment. Employers don’t want to hear that you need a career makeover (or makeunder); they just want to know what’s in it for them. Read more.
Add comment February 5th, 2007
Hi, my name's Michelle Goodman and I've been freelancing since 1992. I'm author of My So-Called Freelance Life and The Anti 9-to-5 Guide. Read my full bio here.
My So-Called Freelance Life: How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire (Seal Press, 2008)
The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube (Seal Press, 2007)
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