As much as I hate the Daily Fail, they have all the good behind-the-scenes photos of the work in progress. The last photo is the one I was thinking of. [bit.ly]

Carina Press sometimes hires freelancers: [carinapress.com] I freelance, but most of my clients came from previous (offline) work, and from bombarding friends and family with the occasional "Please ask your friends/colleagues to ask their friends/colleagues if they know of freelance opportunities."

There must be some law of physics that explains this—the larger the listserv, the more ridiculous the opinions. "You should legally change your name to the name you want your [novel] character to have! Then no one could challenge it as a trademark!" Inane. The ratio of thoughtful/useful comments on this particular…

Same here. Did you see the hologram portrait of her with her eyes closed? Beyond cool. (I mean that seriously—it's a really interesting artwork!)

ETA: Wrong example; never mind.

Agreed. I actually thought about it once, for a formal event, but I couldn't get past, "I could buy a lot of books/coffee/t-shirts for that!" I think it's aimed at women who feel pressured to straighten their hair—those places obliterate curls. (Why, God, why?)

A blow-out is when you go to a salon and, for $30-$40 (or higher), they blow-dry and style your hair for you. No shampoo, no cut—they just point the hairdryer at your head and style your hair. To each his/her own...

Congrats!! That's terrific!

Same here, although I should probably just be glad I could fire up VoiceMemos on my clunker... Thanks for the tip, though.

Ah, it exists! Interesting; thanks. :)

Oh, dear. As I thought. Yeah, I've always done them the hard way before, but tried not to let too long elapse from the interview to the transcribing part; otherwise, my notes look like hieroglyphics. Ah, well, at least it's a long weekend...

Every industry needs good writers. No one wants to admit it—particularly not the number-crunchers who like to lord it over the writers—but it's true.

I have to transcribe a fifty-minute interview, and I don't wanna. Is there some magick via which I could plug my (aged) iPhone into my laptop and, expecto wordum, I would have words on a page instead of words in a noisy bar on VoiceMemos? :( No, right?

I stuck it in trollpatrol. You can always go here [jezebel.com] to report comments like that. Just copy the timestamp and paste it in the message box in trollpatrol, and add the trollpatrol hashtag. Here, have a cat gif to help your mood. :)

What's with all the denial in the comments on the J. Crew article? People really think that kind of catalog shot is ok? "It just looks like someone's vacation album!" Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

"Here, Gryff! Come on, boy!" Heck, even for a cat!

This is kind of amazing: [news.msn.co.nz] ("Queen names puppies after Harry Potter characters").

Hoist one (a drink or a sailor, your choice) for this old married woman uptown. ;) Have fun!

I take it you have never read Cyrano de Bergerac.

Genius. :)