Hi! I’m Carol Tice, six-figure freelance writer, nonfiction book author, and writer of the award-winning Make a Living Writing blog.
My mission is to help as many freelance writers as I can discover how to earn more from their writing.
You might wonder why I started this community — MALW not keeping me busy enough? Haha… yeah, that wasn’t it.
I opened The Freelance Writers Den to give you more and better-organized, quality information and individual help with your freelance writing career.
The Den is closed to new members right now. To get into the Den, sign up on the waiting list. Then, you’ll be the first to hear when we reopen. I also sometimes make a secret entrance people on the waitlist, can use while we’re still officially closed, and send free stuff to make that wait less lonely.
Are you a nonmember who’s got a question about the Den? Feel free to shoot me an email at carol @ caroltice . com.
But to give you a quick overview, for one low monthly rate, it’s all-you-can-eat learning in here, instead of paying more for a Webinar here (mine are $47 each) or a 4-week bootcamp there ($197). All my events are free to Den members.
Did you notice my “Den Mother is IN” cartoon? I put that up so you’ll know I’m all about being available to help Denizens with their freelance-writing questions. I’m in the Den every day except Saturdays, so it’s not one of those places where you can’t find an expert. Lots of other pro writers are hanging out in here, too…but just wanted you to know you can find me in the Den.
Looking to depart? The Den is designed to support you until you’ve got all the great-paying clients you need. We expect that people will come and go, and leaving is easy. Whenever you’re ready, you can cancel your membership by simply going in your Paypal account and canceling your payments. Your Den access will end at the conclusion of the month you’ve paid for.
Of course, I can’t run this whole new room stuffed full of freelance-writing resources by myself. So there are a few people who are also helping out in the Den. When I’m not around, they are here to help you get the answers you need.
The Other Den Mother
I am positively ecstatic to have Renegade Writer Linda Formichelli as my partner in providing expert help in the Den. I first met Linda when we both won Top 10 Blogs for Writers. Since then, we started the 4-week Blast-Off Class together, and I had a chance to get to know her better. In a word, she’s awesome.
Linda is super-experienced in nearly every type of freelance writing. I find her advice always smart and right-on. When I’m not around, she’ll be keeping an eye on the forums and making sure you’re getting the answers you need.
The Webmaster
Tom Engstrom at Parallel Link
When something goes wrong and the forum starts mysteriously chopping all the posts off on the right side, or we need a new feature added to the Den, I am extremely grateful to have a pro Webmaster who knows how to do it.
Parallel Link is based right in my neighborhood, and I’m loving having a responsive Web team in my own time zone (and speaking English as a first language, too).
The moderators
The Moderator/Tech Whiz
Ty
I got in touch with Ty Banfield after I wrote a blog post asking my readers if they thought it was possible for us to collectively pull together the best freelance writing job ads, reducing the individual effort required. Ty left a comment saying he’d built a system to aggregate and filter every freelance writing ad posted on Craigslist. I asked if he could do that for us — and the result is our awesome Junk-Free Job Board.
If you’re wondering how in the world Ty was able to build this type of system, it’s because he’s been doing online development for a decade. And since us writers are word stylists and not technicians, it’s great to have him in the Den to solve the inevitable technical problems Den members encounter when they’re building their writer’s website.
Anyone who needs help with their own blog or website problem can easily contact Ty on the Den, or by going to his website, SBW101.
John
John Soares started as an outdoor writer in the early 1990s. He’s written three hiking guides for The
Mountaineers Books, and sold more than 100 articles to magazines and newspapers, including Sunset, Via, and Outdoor Adventure. John left college teaching to write fulltime. His current big niche is writing supplements for college textbooks. His blog, launched in 2010, is Productive Writers: Work Less, Earn More. His ebooks about writing are Intelligent Productivity for Freelance Writers and Writing College Textbook Supplements.
Sharon
M. Sharon Baker told me she fell in love with writing the minute she finished her first newspaper story, in which a dorm advisor chased a thief with a hockey stick. After more than 15 years as a business journalist, Sharon gave up the daily deadline grind to freelance.
In addition to writing for trade publications such as Nation’s Restaurant News, Sharon helps companies with their blogs, case studies, white papers, contributed articles and public relations. Her blog is Every Word Counts. I’ve known Sharon since we both wrote for the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle, and she’s one of my best writer-friends — the kind you need when you want to bounce an idea or a client proposal off somebody to make sure you’re not taking a bad deal.
Hope you all have someone like her in your life — if not, find yourself a writer-bud here in the FWD forums.
Pooja
Pooja took a leap of faith and switched careers from Software Engineer to Freelance Editor and Writer in 2010. Originally from Mumbai, India, she now lives in Melbourne, Australia with her partner. So she’s the one you might find helping you out if you’re on in the middle of the night Pacific Time!
Since embarking on the writer’s journey, Pooja has ghost-written three non-fiction books and edited for VERITAS magazine.
She also acts as a consulting editor at Jo Jo Publishing in Australia and writes for a leading Australian marketing consultancy. Her interests include metaphysics, self-help, personal development, esoteric sciences, alternative medicines and conscious living. She blogs at Of Parchments & Inks.
Linda B.
Linda Bryant began her journalism career writing for a weekly newspaper in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. The next 25 years saw her working an array of writing gigs — grant writing, daily newspaper reporting, business writing, ghost writing and editing. She voluntarily left her job as senior reporter at the Nashville Business Journal in 2009 to pursue freelancing. She has recently published in the Tampa Bay Business Journal, Atlanta Business Chronicle, Nashville Business Journal, Nashville Post and Nashville City Paper.
Linda ghostwrites corporate blogs for several national franchises, yet she is still trying to launch and brand her own blog. Freelance Writer’s Den and the Make a Living Writing blog are critical tools for her as she makes her move from traditional journalism to the blogosphere and beyond.
In 2010, Linda was named a Bauemeister Fellow in Creative Writing at Farleigh Dickinson University. Getting an MFA is a lifelong dream, and the freelance life allows her the flexibility to go for it. Her website is Nashville Freelance Writer.
Linda H.
I’m excited to add Linda Hamilton to the moderator staff. She has been a very active forum participant and 
is always in there, helping people find what they’re looking for amongst the Den’s growing pile of resources.
Linda got her degree in news reporting and photojournalism. She has a successful resume-writing business in the Sacramento area. She’s written award-winning training curriculum for a wireless carrier. She’s also been published in career-oriented, equestrian, California state agency, and specialty publications. She jumped back into freelance writing recently and says she had incoming work within 36 hours of being laid off.
Her goal is to get started in freelance commercial writing in the coming year, to broaden her scope. You can reach her at her website (newly redone and looking awesome thanks to the Den trainings!), Hamilton Writing.
