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Food Bloggers

Published by Jonell Galloway + Saturday, August 1, 2015 Permalink 0

Publishing at TRE for Food Bloggers

At TRE, we do not consider blogging as different from writing. We think it is writing, in one of the forms writing can take.

Food blogging is one of the best ways to start food writing, however, and you can hone your skills as you go. You don’t have to be a writer with a deep background to start a blog. Your blog can serve as your developmental playground, while your writing grows in depth, authority, and readerly interest. Many bloggers have a goal of eventually publishing their work in print journals, on high profile sites, as print books, or as ebooks.

The Rambling Epicure platform showcases all types of food writing. We regularly publish outstanding writing from food bloggers. If you have a spectacular food blog post that you want still more people to see, feel free to send it our way.

Meanwhile, join our community. Our newsletter will come to you monthly, and every now and then you’ll get a tasty food quote.

Authorpreneurship

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, May 7, 2015 Permalink 0

“The mystery is worth a book in itself. How could a hitherto unknown novel by Harper Lee, writer of “To Kill a Mockingbird”, remain hidden for 60 years, and why was it not published before? For all the swirling questions, there is one certainty. The book will become a blockbuster without Ms Lee so much as signing a copy. If only every author could be so lucky.

“Standing out as a book writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well, thinking strategically about their brand, and marketing themselves and their products. There is more competition for readers’ and reviewers’ attention, and fewer bookshops to provide a showcase for new titles. In 2013 some 1.4m print books were published in America, over five times as many as a decade earlier. Publishers are increasingly focusing their efforts on a few titles they think will make a splash, neglecting less well-known authors and less popular themes.”

WHY START A FOOD OR AUTHOR BLOG?

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, May 5, 2015 Permalink 3

BLOGGING 101: WHY START A FOOD OR AUTHOR BLOG?

by Jonell Galloway

This is the second article in a series about How to Start a Food or Author Blog

There are thousands of reasons to start a blog. For authors, they serve as a complement to their main activity of writing. For recipe developers, they can be a way of sharing their recipes and of forming a community with people, and eventually leading to a book or career change. A food blogger is merely someone with a food blog, no matter the motivation.

Making money should not be a main priority, as direct revenue is rarely a viable strategy given the millions of blogs and websites out there. We shouldn’t have any illusions about that. But blogs can lead to other activities that will make you money. Your blog also allows you to establish yourself in your field of expertise. You may get consulting work, offers to write for websites, or book deals. You may be asked to develop or test recipes, or get invited to talk at conferences or workshops about your specialty or about writing.

Blogging is a format to communicate your expertise, or your story (and often a blend of both). It can start from purely a hobbyist intention, or from a professional one.

Wendell Berry Quote: Why do Farmers Farm?

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, November 3, 2014 Permalink 0

Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is: “Love. They must do it for love.” Farmers farm for the love of farming. They love to watch and nurture the growth of plants. They love to live in the presence of animals. They love to work outdoors. They love the weather, maybe even when it is making them miserable. They love to live where they work and to work where they live. If the scale of their farming is small enough, they like to work in the company of their children and with the help of their children. They love the measure of independence that farm life can still provide. I have an idea that a lot of farmers have gone to a lot of trouble merely to be self-employed to live at least a part of their lives without a boss.― Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: Writings on Farming and Food

Print Journalists & Book Authors

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, September 8, 2014 Permalink 0

Free Phone Call

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, September 8, 2014 Permalink 1

Thinking about your food writing? As in, how to make it more real and vivid? Or how to improve the quality of your commitment to it?Contact us to set up a free consultation. We want to talk with you, and 20 of our minutes are yours for the asking.

We also offer free one-hour conference calls for students once a month. That’ll be a whole bunch of us on the phone together, and we will announce the topic far ahead of time. Contact us with topics that will be especially useful to you.

Food Writing Prompts: Your Own Desk is a Prompt

Published by Elatia Harris + Wednesday, August 13, 2014 Permalink 2

by Elatia Harris

So many great writers need their writing rooms to meet precise specs. E.B. White preferred a rough-hewn, minimalist space, with nothing but a typewriter. Virginia Woolf needed lots of green around her, and took some serious kidding about it from her sister. I have noticed that a writing room is almost never gender-neutral, even when the writer is going for a low-key, orderly space that gives little away. There’s something I need, that I’ll give up things I like to get: a window. Looking at photos like the National Trust photo above, of Vita Sackville-West’s writing table at Sissinghurst, I always notice — does the writing table face a window, or a wall?

Which leads me to wonder — how much of a writing prompt is your desk itself? It has four corners, like the ancient Chinese idea of the Universe. Within that space, you can put anything you have that helps. When you look up from your work, are you still seeing with the mind’s eye? What could you arrange to see, physically, that would give you the most of what you needed to keep writing?

Elatia Harris is a writer and consulting editor in Cambridge, Mass. She is most often at work on books and articles about food, wine and travel. Contact her at elatiaharrisATgmailDOTcom or via text at 617-599-7159.

Food Studies Writers

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, August 1, 2014 Permalink 0

Publishing at TRE for Writers in Food Studies

Since its founding in 2009, The Rambling Epicure has been blessed with the participation of both established and emerging writers. Our focus will continue to be on good writing, wherever it can be found.

We are very excited by all the good writing now coming out of Food Studies programs, and have set up a competition LINK to draw attention to writers of all ages, not just those of traditional student age, who are training in this area. It’s a vital discipline that will expand the scope of food writing, and we want to showcase it.

Whether you seek to build an online presence, or your focus is print journalism and academic publishing, we want to help you get knownnow. Join our community today.

Book

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, July 28, 2014 Permalink 0

Our first book, Mastering the Art of Food Writing, under our own imprint, The Rambling Epicure LLC, will be out as an ebook this coming spring.

Mastering The Art of Food Writing is an up-to-the-minute guide not only to writing well about food, but to finding out where you fit into the broad spectrum of food writers. If building a readership for your writing — whether or not you already have a platform — is as important to you as writing well, then you will benefit from the innovative teaching we do in these pages.

Mastering the Art of Food Writing is a book for the seriously ambitious. Watch this page for updates. And, using the form below, please write to us, meanwhile, about your own experiences in getting a food writing career off the ground.