Thanks!

From LA Craigslist [link]

Article Editing - Battlestar Galactica

Looking for someone well-versed on the religious and metaphysical aspects of the Battlestar Galactica series to edit a scholarly article. Rewriting may/will be necessary to refine the product. The article is currently 27 pages.

Compensation: $20 per page in installments, paid through Paypal.

I got a comment of 'Cool Book' on iBooks with the rating of 3 stars out of 5. What's up some dude on the Internet?

I guess it's cool, but could use some improvement. Come to think of it, I pretty much agree.

Yipes Ginger, is someone really asking for someone to ghost write their scholarly work? Through Craigslist? Talk about a seamy underside to academia.

I've got to write a bio for the website I do editing for...I kind of hate it.(Not, like, Onerous Task hate, but...is there anything interesting I can say about my life?(Given that this is a disability website so they're all over the Miracle Baby thing.)

I hate writing bios. I always feel like I have nothing interesting to say and am bragging, all at the same time.

wrod. That's exactly it. I'm proud of my publications, but just listing my markets seems both dry and like I'm asking the hypothetical readers to suck it.(And my editor is all too fricking willing to believe I'm some mysterious Chandler blonde, but to write a bio like that...eh, it feels pretentious.) And as a reader, I sort of hate getting to the end of an article, wanting to find out something about the author and getting:

Raised by wolves in suburban Tacoma, Dave didn't really feel the urge to create until he was bitten by that radioactive tequila worm in Mexicali.

On one hand, I get it...the bio statement is kind of a construct so you create this Origin myth, hoping that only people that are in on it read it.

I'm just not sure if that makes them more clever than I am, or that dick at a party who stands in the corner saying "Don't you hate these things?" all night.

Maybe you could do something in between. Something along the lines of : "Chandleresque blonde miracle baby with a noir outlook shaped by the mean street life of the Arizona suburbs." Snarky, yet a close reading yields real biographical info to a reader who knows nothing about you.

Journalist, writer and wit extraordinaire, Erika is a Chandleresque blonde whose worldview was shaped by the mean fictional streets of Baltimore. As a resident of Phoenix, she also works to stem the tide of insanity in Arizona politics.

Good suggestions, people, thanks.