For the last several years, Michelle Rafter of WordCount has organized a blogathon. This year, she can’t take it on, so the good folks at Freelance Success are doing it instead. Here’s how it works. First, you sign up! When you do that, you commit to putting one post per day on your blog for… [Read More]
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About my writing, and my turn with a blog hop.
Last week, the lovely and talented Marcia Layton Turner asked me to participate in a baton blog hop. The idea is that bloggers will post about their writing process, then introduce their readers to other bloggers they should know. Marcia’s specialty is ghostwriting; you’ve probably seen her books all the time without realizing that she was the… [Read More]
What Courtney Love and I have in common
The worst part about libel law in the United States is that it can be used to harass people – people who did nothing wrong. I was sued by convicted felon Keith Gilabert for reporting on his hedge-fund fraud. Tom Chandler, an outdoor blogger, was sued by the San Francisco Chronicle’s outdoor writer, Tom Stienstra,… [Read More]
Keith Gilabert sued me for libel. The suit was dismissed, and he must pay my legal fees. These are facts.
In late December of last year, convicted felon Keith Gilabert sued me for libel over this post, in which I recounted his fraud. Today, Judge King of the Central District of California dismissed the suit, with prejudice, and ordered Gilabert to repay my legal expenses. You can read the order here: Docket 52-0 – Order… [Read More]
See my FinCon presentation on reporting for bloggers
At the Financial Bloggers Conference in October, I was on a panel of bloggers talking about research and reporting. If you’d like to see us, here you go:
