Here is a link to a post I just entered on the ePinions.com site, and below is an excerpt with a suggestion:
I think about ten thousand stories in small local papers where you all live with a title such as, “How the Chase Card Services Grinch Stole Christmas,” has some appeal.
Get going, you must act fast. Call your local paper and pitch the story before Christmas. To do this, call a columnist or an editor and ask for an appointment (better), or present your ideas on the phone.
To this, I would add, there’s nothing wrong with TV (so if at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again). For the first time in my married life, I did not give my wife a Christmas present, at all.
UPDATE: After this post, I wrote and have now released an ebook on this topic.



on Dec 29th, 2008 at 11:23 am
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on Dec 31st, 2008 at 2:07 pm
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