Michael Leis

While there have been many professionals who have impacted my professional development over the last two decades, recently, Whitney Hess asked me to pick one. I picked William Donnelly, a professor at Temple University who taught Media Planning and Marketing Media Products. She was kind enough to publish my terse answers on her blog here [...]

What does it take to be a professional writer? Here are a few thoughts on the subject.

The following was written for the now-defunct Smug online magazine way back in 1998. Reminded of it by Adam Kmiec‘s ill-fated trip to Disney On Ice. For the sake of posterity, I’m reposting it here: Ever wear polyester pants so tight, you might as well be wearing speedo’s? You think that’s bad, but the waistband [...]