With some editorializing, here’s a summary of Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry’s excellent advice for writers putting together nonfiction book proposals. There’s guidance regarding fiction proposals in the…
It’s hard to believe I’ve already reached Week 4 of the six-week plan to financial independence laid out in Ramit Sethi’s I Will Teach You to Be Rich. This…
It’s no secret that I love Tina Fey. My favorite chapter in her book Bossypants was devoted entirely to her father, Don. She writes, “My dad has visited me…
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Ramit Will Teach Me to Be Rich—Introduction to Week 1: Welcome to the Jungle (of Personal Finance)
It would seem that, when it comes to personal finance, I have an appetite for (self-)destruction. Three years after college graduation, my levels of anxiety about money are so…
Did you know that Michael Jackson’s patented gravity-defying lean is actually…patented?! It’s true! In 1993 the smooth criminal himself was granted U.S. Patent #5,255,452 for a “method and means…
A guest post by Debbie Lazarus, author of Sh*t Happens: The Book, to cheer us up on this dreary day (I mean, unless, unlike me, you have a fat…