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Food Blogger Pro Open Enrolment Starts Now

It’s time for Food Blogger Pro Open Enrolment. Enrolment only lasts one week (from May 24-31) so if you haven’t already, I hope you’ll click on one of these links or the ad on the right, to sign up. After that there’s a waiting list. (And hey, if you want to skip the sales pitch […]

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Get a Decent Social Media Following First to Get a Cookbook Deal, says Gibbs Smith Editor

Michelle Branson says she wants cookbook authors with a decent social media following. She’s Senior Editor and Contract Administrator of Gibbs Smith, in charge of cookbooks acquisition team, and a member of the children’s books acquisitions team. The question, though, is what constitutes a “decent social media following?” Big. But even as publishers and agents […]

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Our Italy Food & Wine Writing Workshop

Caio! I’m back from the Valpolicella wine region of Verona, Italy, where my co-host Demet Guzey and I hosted a sold out group of students from the U.S. and Ireland to eat, drink and write. It was our second writing workshop and we hope for more. We stayed at a gorgeous 10-bedroom Palladian villa in […]

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Win Secrets of the Southern Table + Get Tips for a Successful Book Tour

Cookbook author Virginia Willis starts another book tour with her new Secrets of the Southern Table: A Food Lover’s Tour of the Global South. She reminds herself that book tours aren’t just about sales. “Book tours are about connecting with readers,” she says. “Even if I sell only a few books, those people will tell their […]

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Are You Guilty of Recipespeak? Why the Washington Post’s Recipe Editor Hates It

While reading a cookbook review for Food52’s Piglet cookbook tournament, I noticed that Bonnie S. Benwick, recipe editor for the Washington Post, mentioned the absence of recipespeak in one of the cookbooks. “Recipespeak!” I exclaimed to myself. I wasn’t sure what it was, but I had to find out. Bonnie S. Benwick,  incidentally, has one of […]

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5 Ways to Know When Your Writing is Done

How do you know when your writing is done or your blog post is finished? You could keep going over it endlessly, rewriting and wondering if you need to do more research or explaining. Or adding more keywords and spiffing up the SEO. But if you do so, will it be finished then? Or maybe […]

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How I Will Stay Sane in a Shifting Freelance Climate

A guest post by Jaime Lewis I love the writing life but I’m done gaming this shifting freelance climate. The last 10 years of my career, I’ve devoted myself to hunting down, pitching, landing and writing stories for newsprint, magazines and websites. The plan was to: Pursue a living as a full-time food and wine […]

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5 Tasks Every Food Blogger Should Outsource to a VA

A guest post by Maggie Zhu If you are working nonstop and feeling overwhelmed, maybe it’s time to outsource to a VA or virtual assistant. Doing so helps you focus on the most important work and grow your businesse. A VA is a member of your team, performing work remotely. Whether you’re hiring a programmer from […]

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Cookbook Giveaway: Simply Citrus, by Double Award Winner Marie Asselin

Marie Asselin just got her second moment of fame. The creator of  the 17-year old food blog Food Nouveau, Marie is a double award winner. She won the 2017 Best Recipe-Based Blog and the 2018 Best Individual Blog from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). She’s an overnight sensation! She’s also the author of her […]

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The Hidden Life of Grace Young

Everyone knows Grace Young is a Chinese food writer. She’s won national awards for each of her three Chinese cookboooks. But as with most successful people, there’s much more to her than that. Recently she took a subversive turn, mixing traditional and Western dishes to cook in a wok. In this video, newly nominated for a […]

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