FAQ
Who are you?
I’m a writer living and working in southeastern Wisconsin. My writing has appeared in magazines and literary journals including Poets & Writers, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine, Wisconsin Trails and The Writers Chronicle. I have a husband, two kids, a mortgage, a car payment and a golden retriever. And I’m working on a novel.
Why do you have ads on your blog?
I once heard Michael Perry, author of Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time, field questions after a keynote address at a writers conference. Predictably, someone in the audience asked him what inspires him to write. Perry said something to this effect: “There’s a guy named Bob at my bank. Bob holds my mortgage. Bob inspires me to write every day.”
That’s a down-to-earth, non-greedy way of saying, “I write for money.” It makes perfect sense, really. Writing is my work, and I like to get paid for it. Because I’ve got bills to pay.
Accepting ads on my blog allows me to earn money exactly the same way as I do when I have a piece published in a magazine. Subscriptions and newsstand sales do not pay for the writing in magazines: ad sales do. In most magazines, one page of ads pays for one page of editorial content. So. Bring on the ads, and show me the money!