Comments on: Welcome to Formerly! http://www.formerlyhot.com/2009/06/welcome-to-formerly/ The tween site for adults Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:28:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Joel Jacobs http://www.formerlyhot.com/2009/06/welcome-to-formerly/comment-page-1/#comment-1216 Joel Jacobs Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:15:03 +0000 http://www.formerlyhot.com/?p=651#comment-1216 What's wrong with "awesome"? Better than "amazing," don't you think? What’s wrong with “awesome”? Better than “amazing,” don’t you think?

]]> By: Christina http://www.formerlyhot.com/2009/06/welcome-to-formerly/comment-page-1/#comment-1214 Christina Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:54:27 +0000 http://www.formerlyhot.com/?p=651#comment-1214 Congratulations on the book deal Steph! You're an awesome writer (even though we formerlies shouldn't use the word awesome, IMO). Congratulations on the book deal Steph! You’re an awesome writer (even though we formerlies shouldn’t use the word awesome, IMO).

]]> By: Leanne Bradford http://www.formerlyhot.com/2009/06/welcome-to-formerly/comment-page-1/#comment-1203 Leanne Bradford Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:50:31 +0000 http://www.formerlyhot.com/?p=651#comment-1203 I read your "Turning 40" piece in June's redbook. I have been chronicling my own rites of passage in my blog above, because I turned over the big "50". I was so moved to take my writing a step further-I was a newspaper correspondent once upon a time-that I submitted a little pitch to Redbook. I emailed it right to the Editor-inChief. At any rate, I read from your blog that you have a book deal. Wow! Have you any tips for first-time'er like me who hopes to get her pieces somewhere in the proper hands, in the proper channels, where they may find resonance and publication-worthiness???? I did not in my little pitch to Redbook offer a prospective piece; I just included a link to my blog, and a request for a reply. I'm sitting here in my bikini, something I couldn't have done when I was 40. I read your “Turning 40″ piece in June’s redbook. I have been chronicling my own rites of passage in my blog above, because I turned over the big “50″. I was so moved to take my writing a step further-I was a newspaper correspondent once upon a time-that I submitted a little pitch to Redbook. I emailed it right to the Editor-inChief. At any rate, I read from your blog that you have a book deal. Wow!
Have you any tips for first-time’er like me who hopes to get her pieces somewhere in the proper hands, in the proper channels, where they may find resonance and publication-worthiness???? I did not in my little pitch to Redbook offer a prospective piece; I just included a link to my blog, and a request for a reply.

I’m sitting here in my bikini, something I couldn’t have done when I was 40.

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