tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42835508609137503182024-03-18T13:08:32.502-04:00On Being an AuthorMy adventures in publishing and freelance writing.Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.comBlogger232125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-40191777432748764612024-03-18T13:08:00.014-04:002024-03-18T13:08:00.128-04:00The Joys of Freelancing When you tell people you are a freelance writer, you usually get one of two responses. "Oh, yeah, I do that sometimes." These people call themselves freelancers (and they are), but they don't freelance for a living. It's a side gig that they either haven't put the effort into building or they just use it in their spare time. Then, there is the starry-eyed response as if Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-55709301969715447862024-03-11T13:08:00.005-04:002024-03-11T13:08:24.762-04:00Picking up the Pieces So, I had a rough past few years. I was horribly censored, despite using extensive citations in everything I wrote. My book, Hitler's Big Lie, still cannot be accessed, edited, or updated, but I am planning to try again, soon. My long journey of censorship and attacks--regardless of how much scientific evidence I had supporting my statements--is hopefully ending. I have started workingJennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-24966891006293717992022-02-28T08:00:00.097-05:002024-03-08T07:37:56.435-05:00The West Should Be Ashamed of ItselfI am editing and reposting this rant. I usually have a separate blog for politics. However, having my writing censored even though I cite the CDC and FDA and other peer-reviewed scientific works, has lead me to be extraordinarily cynical about our current society.For two years now, the West has inflicted Middle-Ages-revived methods of public health on its citizens--rejecting modern scientific Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-1195115111309873812020-10-23T08:50:00.001-04:002020-10-23T12:19:51.206-04:00Do You Really Know Where Biden and Trump Stand? As an independent voter, I believe it is not which party you vote for, but the most important thing is that you vote for a candidate who most supports your views.That said, I have been creating a series of quizzes about the candidates on Sporcle, a quiz website. I did the research and use actual quotes. I use only where the candidates stand now (as opposed to where they might have stood in Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-51057586320194608312020-10-19T08:06:00.001-04:002020-10-19T08:06:38.873-04:00Censorship Is ALWAYS Bad: Authors, Writers, Freelancers UNITE Against Censorship I have written about the censorship Amazon is doing to prevent books from being sold that address the COVID-19 pandemic. These books do not violate Amazon's terms of service, and Amazon states it is dedicated to allowing diverse interests. It is not. My book has more than 300 citations from other sources. I spent months researching it, and I had to fight to get the one version of it they Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-49207287986362439922020-10-12T11:49:00.017-04:002020-10-12T12:00:55.285-04:00COVID-19 Hasn't Stopped People from Cheating Every week, I get at least one invitation to a project asking for help with schoolwork. Now, let me say up front that being a scribe is a real, modern job that has merely changed titles to "Ghostwriter." Schools and colleges push for superior writing skills when not everyone (even very intelligent people) can obtain them. Writing is part education and part talent. Everyone should have Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-11047319974121977762020-10-03T19:58:00.005-04:002020-10-03T21:43:54.133-04:00Unmasking the Lies As writers and authors, it is our duty to do extensive research and read information with a critical eye, to be able to show proof of our written conclusions, and to not simply take someone else's word for it. That is no longer happening in most writing circles and it is wrong. Tonight, I was denied entrance to an AMC theater because I have breathing problems and cannot wear a mask. Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-9090507662164197682020-09-24T10:48:00.001-04:002020-09-24T10:48:00.644-04:00Amazon Censorship? Amazon has given me trouble about publishing my book: Hitler's Big Lie and the COVID-19 Pandemic. The first problem I had was that it was flagged for plagiarism. For those of you not familiar with the book, it contains close to 400 citations that take up about 25% of the book. The number of citations actually proves the book was not plagiarized, but computer software to detect plagiarism isJennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-32171297672635154962020-09-17T12:40:00.003-04:002020-09-17T12:40:33.588-04:00Covid-19, Hitler, and the Hate of the General PublicI have been getting a lot of attacks for my book--Hitler's Big Lie and the Covid-19 Pandemic. It boggles my mind at how many people are willing to throw out their rights and the rights of others as well as throw out everything we have learned about disease and disease control in the past 300 years. They are so closed minded that they accept what the CDC says without actually reading the citationsJennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-20376789328371128202020-08-24T10:34:00.001-04:002020-08-24T10:34:01.433-04:00Is Your Writing Style Hurting You?There are basically three different writing styles: those who write and never revise. Those who write and revise, revise, revise, revise, revise... And those who write, revise, and occasionally revisit the work. The first two can kill you as a professional author.
I usually don't work with the second type. These are the people who think they are the best writers in the world, and wonder why no Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-55933312909916734832020-08-18T19:22:00.000-04:002020-08-18T19:22:05.485-04:00Hitler's Big Lie and the COVID-19 Pandemic-- My Latest Writing Endeavor. I have written a new book, filled with citations to help clear up the mystery surrounding all the COVID-19 misinformation. Here is the description: The misinformation surrounding COVID-19 has possibly been the largest since the propaganda created in Nazi Germany. With even the CDC first telling everyone not to wear masks and now telling everyone to wear them, it can be extremely Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-11997079571954251742020-03-26T19:52:00.000-04:002020-03-26T19:52:03.580-04:00IngramSpark: Is the Headache Really Worth It?IngramSpark is the latest self-publishing craze. I have seen tons of posts talking about its benefits, IngramSpark vs. Amazon, and of course why you should use both. But I don't get paid by IngramSpark (or Amazon for that matter) to talk about how wonderful they are. I get paid by people who become completely frustrated with uploading their books to IngramSpark and who then turn to me for help Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-82625877309925894632020-03-23T14:05:00.003-04:002020-03-23T14:05:56.828-04:00Coronavirus Fake NewsI haven't addressed this because most people reading my blog work from home, but the quarantines they are currently enacting to shut down the United States, state-by-state, are illegal, disproportionately affect the poor, and will increase infection rates as they expose healthy people to sick ones in confined areas. Research shows mass quarantines have not stopped the spread of any pandemic in Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-51669863278267107482020-03-19T09:54:00.000-04:002020-03-19T09:54:02.658-04:00Writing a Book Copyright NoticeWhat must you include in your copyright notice?
Copyright 2020 by Jennifer Reinoehl
Yep. That is all you must have. Still people like to write more. They feel that they must make it clear that no one else is allowed to copy their work. The problem is that the people who are writing these extended copyright notices are not lawyers and have not copied the notice word-for-word from a Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-42181644167925236482020-03-12T09:32:00.000-04:002020-03-12T09:32:08.069-04:00The Editing Process
The editing process should always be collaborative, but I think most writers do not understand what this means. It means that yes, I track changes. It also means that yes, you can accept or reject those changes. I also leave comments. Many of these are drawing your attention to something so you can change it when it is your turn--things like "I don't know what this means?" "Can you give me an Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-65897187782935399872020-03-05T09:02:00.000-05:002020-03-05T09:02:17.035-05:00The Infamous Free SampleI have recently talked about the "writing test." This is a "test" that employers invariably send me that takes time to complete and that frequently is filled with errors that cannot be corrected without a style manual. Similar to this atrocity is the free sample. Guru does not allow employers to request free samples. Like tests, any jobs that ask for samples I tend to avoid. Since employers Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-64050926504747749722020-02-27T01:17:00.000-05:002020-02-27T01:17:00.142-05:00How Long Will That Take?I recently had a job where the person, I will call her Starfire, wanted the book edited in five weeks. This was not a big book, so I said sure. No problem--I could do it in 2-3. Then, Starfire told me she actually had a hard deadline of two weeks. She misunderstood something with her marketer and so there it was, could I still do it? Now, this made me a little nervous, but again, it was supposed Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-80717325027578576172020-02-23T08:58:00.002-05:002020-02-24T12:57:05.403-05:00Warning!! Don't Throw Away Turbo Tax 2019 Home and Business Activation Code!!!
Warning: The Turbo Tax Software is seriously flawed this year (at least the CD for Home and Business). Once you have installed and set it up--after you have already begun to work on your taxes--it continues to ask you for the activation code randomly (after updates, I assume). I contacted them last week, but so far they haven't fixed the issue, which at best is annoying and at worst means you Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-91753464856183283442020-02-20T12:51:00.000-05:002020-02-20T12:51:00.568-05:00Who Is the Author?Almost all freelancing today is ghostwriting of some sort--either ghostwriting through developmental editing or ghostwriting directly. Although there are still many traditional freelancing jobs, the immense number of freelancing projects that have flooded the market lately are done anonymously. Many freelancing contracts, including my own, explicitly state the rights pass to the Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-22571178839903998862020-02-13T12:32:00.000-05:002020-02-24T13:11:12.768-05:00Another one for the English Teacher Wall of ShameHow do these people get jobs teaching? This is a direct quote from my daughter's English teacher:
"and suffered prejudice and discrimmination."
I got it--you are in a hurry and jot off a quick note without checking it. But misspelled words are now underlined in red by every browser I have seen.
This woman has also told her class that a work of fiction is "semi-autobiographical" even Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-2246303115605850032020-02-06T08:58:00.000-05:002020-02-18T10:45:37.460-05:00The broken computer bluesMy keyboard broke (in case you didn't tell some of my posts have an odd w or two). I am in the middle of a few projects, it will take an entire week to have it fixed while they wait for parts, and I hate using my husband's computer because "shift" is in the wrong place on the right side and I hit all sorts of other keys when I try to use it (and of course I use Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-26157561851075543172020-01-31T08:21:00.000-05:002020-01-31T08:21:06.674-05:00Self-Publishing is a Great and Easy way to Get Rich--NOT!I stumbled across a blog stating that it is easy to self-publish and make $2000 per month. This person said he realized that was not a lot, but he was continuing to build his income. People were excited and probably out buying his whole collection of get-rich quick through gigs schemes.
Self-publishing is easy. You write something (or easier Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-21392249276843430542020-01-24T17:18:00.000-05:002020-01-24T17:18:02.559-05:00Professional writers don't get writer's blockNow, before you start throwing tomatoes at the screen and booing me off stage, hear me out. writer's block is a condition where a writer runs out of ideas and things to write. This cannot happen in the professional freelance/ghostwriting world. It does happen frequently with amateur writers and with some really epic writers who do something great Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-73473336919010118312020-01-17T16:47:00.000-05:002020-01-17T16:47:05.780-05:00Beware The "Best-Selling Author"I am always skeptical of other freelancers who claim they are "Best-Selling Authors." It isn't the fact I have never heard of their names--I am sure I haven't heard of the names of thousands of best-selling authors. It is the fact that if you have truly sold the millions of books it takes to be a real best-selling author, why in the world are you still freelancing? This makes Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283550860913750318.post-46877277933256087992020-01-10T14:01:00.000-05:002020-01-14T12:57:27.330-05:00The Next Scam in Publishing: PublishizerOkay, so Publishizer isn't really a scam in that it does what it says: gives you a platform to share your work and also provides a platform for publishers to find you.
But, just because it does what it says doesn't mean it isn't cheating you out of money. As a crowdfunding site, it takes a 30% commission compared to the much lower commissions on Kickstarter. Plus, it sets the cost of your book Jennifer Reinoehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700022258098844636noreply@blogger.com0