Work with different types of client – even in the area of editing and proofreading, if I just worked for students, I’d get massive peaks and troughs as dissertation season comes round at Easter and the end of
A few years ago, I sent letters of introduction to a few university presses and small traditional publishers. I was hired on with The Wild Rose Press and got on the developmental editor list with the University of Georgia. During the first few years, I asked myself, “Is this real? Can...
’ not a doer of ‘your thing’. When freelancers (by definition) take on new work, they’re selling time for money. Without increasing their rates, there’s a limit to what they can earn. By outsourcing delivery or employing people to work on new projects, they...
They live in a first-floor flat with one bathroom and a tiny yard on a busy street, where the windows shake when the fire truck drives by, music from the Foggy Bell Bar comes in the open windows on summer nights, and a tab at the corner store supplies milk and bread. Daddy works t...