Media Room

I respond promptly to journalists and bloggers looking for information or interviews about career growth in the digital age, entrepreneurship, creating your own career, taking a career break to travel or traveling solo.

The best way to catch me is via my contact form.

Notable mentions:

• 20 Bloggers to Watch in 2012 (Problogger)

Interviews with me:

• Quitting Your Job and Becoming a ‘Slasher’ (Entrepreneurs Unpluggd)

• Building Your Portfolio and Getting a Book Deal (BlogcastFM)

• Alexis Grant Talks About Self-Publishing and Creating Your First Digital Product (Spread Your Influence)

• Alexis Grant on Writer’s Retreats and Travel Writing (The Creative Penn)

• How One Writer is Drawing Her Own Map to Success (Ghostwriter Dad)

Samples of my work appearing elsewhere:

• When Jobs are Scarce, Create Your Own (Brazen Life)

• How to Write, Launch and Sell Your Informational EBook (Mashable)

• When Your Dream Company’s Hiring on Twitter (U.S. News & World Report, where I worked on staff as Careers Editor)

• And On the Side, I’m an Entrepreneur (U.S. News & World Report)

• 6 Ways the World of Work is Changing (U.S. News & World Report)

• In modern Cameroon, polygamy doesn’t pay (Christian Science Monitor)

• How to Take a Career Break to Travel (Life After College)

• How Writers Can Use Twitter for Networking (Guide to Literary Agents)

• 4 Ways to Get Your Travel Fix When You Have a Career (Suitcase Entrepreneur)

• Taking a Break to Travel, Without Going Broke (Everyday Bright)

• 10 Tips for Blogging From Developing Countries (Matador)

• How EBooks Can Complement Your Traditional Writing (WordServe Water Cooler)

• Parents expected twins, not risks to fetuses (Houston Chronicle, where I worked as a city desk reporter for three years)

• Out of death, a life saved (Houston Chronicle)

• Innocents Abroad (Colby Magazine)