by Katie | Jun 16, 2019 | Creative Writing, Freelance Academic, My Books
:: Most of the time, like most writers, I work alone and wonder if what I do matters. That’s why launch parties and book events are so important. They remind us that there are people at the other end of our words. 💐💐💐 On Monday, June 3,...
by Katie | Apr 26, 2019 | Creative Writing, Essay, Freelance Academic, Life is Long, My Books, Publishing, Textbooks
:: I spend a lot of time mentoring young or new writers and freelancers, and they all ask me a version of the same question: How did you get here? My path is long. My feelings are strong. And so I decided to write this story. **Author’s note: I started writing this...
by Katie | Feb 1, 2019 | Freelance Academic, My Books
:: I’m not perfect. You’re not perfect. We’re all Okay. That’s what THE FREELANCE ACADEMIC is all about. I wrote a new book. This isn’t totally surprising, since writing books is a Thing I Do. But this one is particularly meaningful to me...
by Katie | Jan 24, 2019 | Editing and Writing Coaching, Freelance Academic
:: In short, with Succeeding Outside The Academy, I wanted to create the book that I needed when I was changing careers. This post is simultaneously published on Kelly J. Baker’s blog. From 2013 to 2015, Kelly J. Baker wrote a monthly column for Chronicle Vitae...
by Katie | Oct 16, 2017 | Disability, Freelance Academic, My Books, Social Justice
:: Three years ago, I wrote a column for a magazine about hiding my psychiatric disability because I feared for my job in higher education. Three years later, disability, in particular, mental health, became a regular beat of mine, and I’ve written essays and...
by Katie | May 7, 2017 | Freelance Academic
:: Overworking your contingent faculty is nothing to brag about, Kentucky. A story recently broke about stolen exams at the University of Kentucky, how a student crawled through an air duct to steal a statistics final in order to cheat. He let another student into the...
