Launching Your Tasty Career In A Crowded Niche

Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan was laid off from the Wall Street Journal in 2009, and a week later she signed a book deal with Hyperion for a food memoir. “I relied on a deep-seated desire to write this book that I’d harbored for many years — and the strength and unwavering faith that my husband, also a journalist, had in me,” Tan told Joe Grimm of the Poynter Institute. Her advice for other journalists in career transition?

You can do anything you set your mind to.