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as a writer. Either you must query magazines and newspapers in hopes of selling an article idea, or you must market and promote your writing services to the world-at-large in hopes of gaining clients. Otherwise, there's no money in it. Writing for fun is one thing. Writing for profit is another. Hopefully, a writer can do both.

7) Your newsletter deals with a lot of these issues and more. Would you like to tell our listeners about the newsletter, Yvonne?

Writers in the Sky Newsletter is published the first Tuesday of each month. It has about 20-25 pages of information for writers, authors, and readers regarding writing, editing, publishing, and book marketing. We feature book reviews, articles, poems, information about the guests we are featuring on our podcast that month, and a networking section. Everything is geared toward our subscriber-based community. Subscribers send me their articles, poems, announcements, and other literary features and I publish them for free.

8) So how does managing the newsletter and blog compare?

The newsletter items have to be edited because many times people send in sloppy work. The content is good, but I can't put the blurb out there with mechanical errors and typos. Fortunately, our graphic designer does the formatting.

I post something on my blog every day. I could easily post twice daily, but I don't want to wear out my welcome with the hundred or so people who are subscribed to our RSS feed. Most of the material on our blog appears in our newsletter, but we also sponsor authors who are doing virtual book tours. We also post any time-dated material that needs to go to the community of subscribers before the next issue of the newsletter. I pay an administrator to manage the blog for me. The newsletter and blog require about 6-8 hours each month.

9) Now I have had the pleasure of appearing on the Writers In the Sky podcast on August 24, 2007 I believe. And that was a very nice experience! Why don't you tell our listeners about the podcast and give us some examples of recent topics that you have covered.

The podcast mainly features authors who are promoting their book. We hear about the storyline and the writing process, but I also bring in a teaching element by asking the guest to share their publishing and marketing experience. We learn from one another through sharing. I try to have a variety of genres represented on the show.

I've also had publishers, book publicists, and marketing experts on the show. In June, I am interviewing

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