{"id":13,"date":"2013-09-05T18:42:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T01:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/taxtips\/?p=13"},"modified":"2014-01-12T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T18:02:15","slug":"welcome-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/taxtips\/2013\/09\/05\/welcome-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome: Now you can get the answers you&#8217;re looking for (pinned post)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Fellow Authors,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m EM Lynley. That&#8217;s my pseudonym. Like you I had a lot of tax questions when I first started getting paid for my writing.<\/p>\n<p>I know exactly what you&#8217;re wondering, because I already asked the same questions, and now I&#8217;ve got answers. Four years ago I took a 3-month long tax preparer class, to make sure I had the right answers to my own questions about writer-specific tax issues.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here to help you with the same issues and problems. 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