I'm a professional freelancer. I work on sites in the US, Australia, Belgium, and Canada. I also write books, (12 self published on Amazon).
Aug 2014- A note to recent commenters- Sorry, didn't get any notifications of comments, which is why it took forever to approve your comments.
I'm also a qualified horticulturalist, (landscape) and business writer. I've written a lot of gardening material and a lot of business articles. One of the reasons I decided to sign up to HubPages was that I wanted to produce an integrated gardening site, which has now expanded into other fields. Some of this material has previously appeared under my name on other sites, but it was all over the place, bits and pieces, not well organized. I'm hoping to put together a properly constructed hub that will provide a lot of useful information for gardeners.
There's no such thing as a reformed gardener...Rereading this profile a year later, I also realize I'm one of those people who never shuts up, I just do my talking with text.
After writing the apparently much-reviled "Send in the Morons" (anyone who thinks you can discourage a pro writer by downvoting is truly an idealist a la Candide) and "How to turn writers into battery chickens" I've realized my megalomania has found its true calling. There's no such thing as an ethical writer, either...
A continuing acknowledgement: Thanks again for all the kind words. I'm still flooring it 7 days a week in my commercial writing, and I haven't been on the site as much as I'd like.
Special note to all those people who've been sending fan mail- Sorry about my almost total lack of feedback, I'm all over the place as usual, rarely get a chance to do anything but write.
**** Note: Website link is my blog, and dovetails into all my other sites.
August 2013
New book, The Creative Process, published on Amazon and Kindle.
May/June 2013
New book, Dear Buckley, Australia in the early 21st century, released on Amazon.
New book You're looking sane today released on Amazon. (I'm catching up on a lot of drafts right now.)
January 2013
New book "The art of being a Somebody", released on Kindle. This savage little book includes a lot of things I've wanted to say for a long time.
October 2012
Amazon aStore opened with a collection of things I think readers might like. See the Hub for details of how this marvellous mental miscellany got started.
September 2012
Revised version of Live Lazy and Love It released on Amazon. This is the upgraded version from the Smashwords original. The theory is that if you can afford to be lazy, you must be doing something right. Had a ball writing it. Also available on Kindle.
August 2012
Finally got another gardening Hub written, "Rose basics". Only took 2 years... Will add more soon, I hope.
July 2012
The new Sydney Media Jam blog has just started. This blog is about my more ambitious projects and subjects based on the original culture jamming idea of SMJ.
My Amazon books page is now up and running, with a few bugs posting a link here at the moment. Check the link out on the SMJ blog site. I'm pleased to say that the quality of the print books is perfect. Sorry about the prices, but that's what's doable.
About the Amazon ads- These are actually selected by me as backups to the Hubs, not random ads. They're seriously recommended books.
12 years ago
Jerome K Jerome is famous for the classic Three Men in a Boat and the play/movie Passing of the Third Floor Back. What’s not generally recognized is that his style clearly influenced a lot of later writers. Jerome was a late 19th century and turn...
11 months ago
A guide on how to manage working through tougher soils in your yard.
11 months ago
Geraniums are usually the toughest, most enduring plants in any garden. Learn how to grow them with this handy guide.
Copyright © 2024 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2024 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |