Getting Rich by Blogging
A few bloggers have gone from complete obscurity to riches via their blogs. (Washingtonienne comes unbidden to mind.) The blogger, who, from experience, must have a female persona, blogs about her intimate life and is offered money beyond the dreams of Croesus (or at least beyond the dreams of the proprietor of the La Grange Chicken Ranch).
In the old days, most of these purportedly female authors were actually men, beginning with some racy memoirs by a young lady of negotiable virtue that were actually penned by John Cleland (who died in poverty, having spent more than 100% of his considerable royalties on his research). Today, of course, the 'author' must pose for pictures for the book jacket, which means that, if a man actually wrote the blog, he would need a suitably pneumatic actress to take all the credit as the author.
Here in Dubai, we have a couple (at least the persona is of two) women who have gone from obscurity to a paid position with a print journal. Their blog is one of those I list on my 'daily reads', Single in Dubai. When they first got the print job, they said they could no longer post their blog, and I had to move them to my inactive list. Apparently, they have gotten permission to resume, so I've had to move them back from my inactive list to my active list.
This is a bother, so I have to hope they keep publishing, so I won't have to move them back to 'inactive.'
In the old days, most of these purportedly female authors were actually men, beginning with some racy memoirs by a young lady of negotiable virtue that were actually penned by John Cleland (who died in poverty, having spent more than 100% of his considerable royalties on his research). Today, of course, the 'author' must pose for pictures for the book jacket, which means that, if a man actually wrote the blog, he would need a suitably pneumatic actress to take all the credit as the author.
Here in Dubai, we have a couple (at least the persona is of two) women who have gone from obscurity to a paid position with a print journal. Their blog is one of those I list on my 'daily reads', Single in Dubai. When they first got the print job, they said they could no longer post their blog, and I had to move them to my inactive list. Apparently, they have gotten permission to resume, so I've had to move them back from my inactive list to my active list.
This is a bother, so I have to hope they keep publishing, so I won't have to move them back to 'inactive.'
posted by Dubai@Random at 4:13 pm
2 Comments:
Oh it won't be a bother! We're pretty active...in more ways than one! ;)
Anyway, just to clarify, we were never asked to stop writing by Grazia or to write for them exclusively, it just got hectic overall - we're back to regular posting now! And it's spring!...everyone is active! :P
interesting blog.. also have u read this blog?
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