"Rats with Islands: How To Survive Your Publishing Career." Romance Writer's Report. PRO Column, October 2005.
"Stalking the Wild Editor: How to Get Published, Maybe." Romance Writer's Report. PRO Column, August 2005.
"The Impossible Dream: How To Find Your Perfect Agent." Romance Writer's Report. PRO Column, June 2005.
"It's All About You: The First Step in Finding An Agent." Romance Writer's Report. PRO Column, Apr. 2005.
"Green Is Not Your Color: Professional Jealousy and the Professional Writer." Romance Writer's Report. PRO Column, Feb. 2005.
"Hello, I'm Your New PRO Columnist: Reflections on the Columns I'm Not Going To Be Writing." Romance Writer's Report. PRO Column, Dec. 2004.
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"Picture This: Collage as Prewriting and Inspiration." Romance Writer's Report. Feb. 2003.
"Emotionally Speaking: Romance Fiction in the Twenty-First Century." Writer's Market. 2003.
"A Writer Without A Publisher Is Like A Fish Without a Bicycle: Writer's Liberation and You." Romance Writer's Report. PAN Column, Mar. 2002.
"Don't Do This At Home: The Four Biggest Mistakes in Contest Entries." Romance Writer's Report. Oct. 2001
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"I Know What It Is When I Read It: Defining the Romance Genre." Romance Writer's Report. PAN, Mar. 2000.
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"With a Little Help from Our Friends: What Local Chapters Can Do For Published Members." Romance Writer's Report. Vol. 18 Number 11, Nov. 1998.
"Taking Out the Garbage: How to Protect Your Work and Get Your Life." Romance Writer's Report. Vol. 18 Number 9, Sept. 1998: 44-45.
"Faxes and Loathing in San Antonio: Jenny Goes To A Board Meeting." Romance Writer's Report. Vol. 18 Number 7, July. 1998: 41-42.
"Defeating the Critics: What We Can Do About the Anti-Romance Bias." Romance Writer's Report. Vol. 18 Number 6, June. 1998: 38-39, 44.
"So, Bill, I Hear You Write Those Little Poems: A Plea for Category Romance." Romance Writer's Report. Vol. 18 Number 5, May. 1998: 42-44.
"I'd Give It a Nine, but It's Hard To Dance To: Ritas, Reviews, and Other Nightmares." Romance Writer's Report. Vol. 18 Number 3, Mar. 1998: 43-44.
"Let Us Now Praise Scribbling Women." Inside Borders March 1998: 19.
"I'm Unpublished, You're Published, I Don't Care How Many Books She Has Out, She's a Twit: Labeling RWA." Romance Writer's Report. Vol. 18 Number 2, Feb. 1998: 8-9.
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"You Go, Romance Writer: Changing Public Opinion." Romance Writer's Report. Vol. 18 Number 1, Jan. 1998: 35-37.
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*credited as Jennifer Crusie Smith
**credited as Jennifer Smith