Healthbolt is Getting a New Writer! (And losing an old one.)
This is my 898th post, and it will be my last. Healthbolt has been my biggest project for almost a full year now. I’ve nursed it from a baby-blog that, literally, only my mom and dad read, into a Technorati top-2000 blog that sees 600,000 page views per month. It’s been really fun and I’ve learned a lot, which was the point in the first place. (I was just teaching myself how to code, honestly. And I turned into a writer at some point.)
Anyway, brevity is a virtue, so I won’t go on and on (I could) about my experience here. I’ll just say it was grand, and let you guys know how much I appreciate all the comments that were left and emails that were traded.
B5media has purchased Healthbolt.net from me, and hired a great writer named Sara Ost. She will be taking this ship over on July 1st. Don’t worry, I told her how you guys prefer your health advice from a sardonic ass who’s 15 pounds over weight, just like you.
Before the final farewell, a few words of introduction from the excellent Sara Ost…
Hi! My name is Sara Ost and I’m your new writer. I have followed Healthbolt since Wade started it last year, and I’m totally honored to take over the ‘bolt from such a talented dude. A little bit about me:
I’ve been writing since I was six years old. My first story was about an ant named Mr. Dirt and my dad gave me two dollars. The originality has improved since then - hey, I was six - and I’ve even written for television.
I have a totally pointless graduate degree from an overpriced university, but after flunking first grade (for real), I just really needed the validation. I am a jane-of-all-trades: marketing, branding, consulting, editing, writing and blogging. In other words, my Mac is pretty much fused to my fingers at this point! I am the editor of another health blog, Mark’s Daily Apple, provenance of one Mark Sisson (retired Ironman and the guy who got triathlon into the Olympics). I’ve guest-posted for Healthbolt before (7 Reasons Drugs Are Waaay Better Than Vitamins! Yep, that was me.). That post will give you a very good idea of my style, which can best be summed up as smart ass. I do know a lot about health, but I am not exactly a nut, because this would interfere with my love of beer.
My favorite things: comedy, food, the outdoors, science, great writers and books, original people, and anything related to the “internets”.
Random trivia: I’m from the Seattle area and now I live in LA. Also, I used to be a fat-fearing, total health nut vegetarian, and ironically, a chunky little monkey. Now I eat a diet of at least 40% fat including plenty of politically incorrect meat, and mysteriously, since doing this, I have become super lean and healthy, to the eternal mystification of my doctor. I do yoga and kung fu, and my big goal for 2007 is to be able to do that Matrix-y running flip on a wall. I’m sure I’ll make a big jack ass of myself, and my friends will likely film it, so stay tuned.
I plan to write two posts daily covering health news, bizarre and cool health facts, and all the awesome oddities of being human.
So, leaving you all in good hands…
Aideu,
Wade Meredith
I can always be reached at wademeredith.com and my new blogging project, Monkey Fires Shot! launches July 7th.
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