Sandra Tsing Loh: Words on Fire Earn lotsa Bucks!
Stories to write by...?
Bloggers can create quite a fuss. All this can also take controversy directly to the publications one writes for and the books one has published.
I’m often more quiet living in a desert “island” community. I rant with a few friends and talk to many customers. We are protected from the ravages of the urban centers and a larger world at large. Yes the computers and TV’s flare on occassion but sunsets calm the fires within.
However, the meek bookish writers might take a few notes from the antics of Sandra sing Loh. Her boldness and fire has created her a fast track career and noterity that allows her the freedom to excel and profit from her words. She speaks and her blogs create tons of traffic. Hmmm, does she Twitter?
How many aspiring writers long for the income she commands? SHe also keeps in the public’s face. Make a list of 5 aspects of her adventure that might feel comfortable for you to try to promote your work and earn some bucks at the same time. Please let me know what works for you!
Ah wouldn’t we all love millions of comments?
Tell me your secets to lots of blog traffic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Tsing_Loh
Biography
Loh is the daughter of a Chinese father[1] and a German mother. She was raised in Southern California.[2] Growing up in Malibu during the era when it did not have its own high school, she commuted along Pacific Coast Highway south to Santa Monica High School (located near that town’s “Dogtown” surf/skating area) in a yellow schoolbus with people like Christophe Pettus (founder of Blowfish) and actor Sean Penn. At “Samohi,” Loh was active in the school’s orchestra, where she played viola—and occasionally keyboard instruments as needed (most notably piano in “Petrushka,” and celesta in “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”).
Loh was also associated with the decidedly nonmusical group that called itself “The Olive Starlight Orchestra,” along with computer graphics experts Greg Turk and Eric Enderton, Rhythm and Hues co-founder Keith Goldfarb, physician/poet Jan Steckel, Academy of Motion Pictures activist (and fine-arts scanning pioneer) David Coons, law professor and activist Susan Crawford, and neuroscience-popularizer David Linden. Goldfarb, impressed with Loh’s intellect and ability to rally people around various causes, began a small coterie he referred to as “The Sandra Loh Fan Club,” or SLFC. Many of her friends and acquaintances simply called her “S’loh,” in much the same spirit that Eric Clapton earned the nickname “Slowhand” (though in Loh’s case it was the quickness of her mind that inspired the pun
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