Confessions of a Fundraising Copywriter

I was sitting in my office, working on my third cup of coffee, absorbed in "Blink," the latest book I was reading. I'm a writer for hire. It's a living. It pays for my books. If I stick to paperbacks.

I was reading a paragraph about the Vienna Philharmonic when the phone rang. I picked it up and in my deepest voice and best Italian accent said, "Rick Grant, writer-for-hire's office."