May 9th, 2008
Are you a freelance writer, editor, blogger, or translator? Do you self-publish, write memoirs, greeting cards or articles on obscure science? Do you have something to say to other freelance writers, etc?
In other words, I’d love to have some guest posts for this blog. No pay, some glory and a lot of gratitude, plus links to whatever you’d like more or less.
You can query or if you’re feeling brave send a completed ms. via email. Put Guest Post in the subject line and if it’s a whole article, paste it into the body of an email… you know why.
Looking forward to seeing what we get.
Write well and often,
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May 9th, 2008
We end this week with 44 Writing, Blogging, Editing and Translation Jobs.
The total number of writing etc. jobs posted here this week: 144
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May 8th, 2008
Have you got questions about making money writing as a freelancer? We’ve got answers:
Got a different question? Email me and put Q&A in the subject line - I’ll do my best.
Write well and often,
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May 8th, 2008
A few days ago told you about a ghostwriting client who broke several telephone appointments and then requested a Saturday appointment even though I normally don’t work weekends. I asked you what you would do.
Most who responded felt there was no need to meet the client on the weekend, although one said they would if it was a well paying client and another felt I should be willing to make a Saturday appointment.
Here’s what I actually did and the result:
- I sent a brief email saying, nicely, that I don’t work weekends and that I’d lost track of her schedule, but was pretty open the following week.
- She wrote back asking if, instead of delaying our talk to the following week, she could call me early Thursday morning.
- I responded, again nicely, that I could make Thursday work. I then pointed out that she’d had a lot going on that resulted in two broken appointments and that when we set an appointment I actually set aside the time and did some prep work, so I wanted to be reasonably sure she could keep the new one she was suggesting.
- It felt like there was a pause, and then she responded with thanks that I’d held her accountable and assuring me she’d keep the appointment this time.
- She did and we made real progress on the ghostwriting project.
There’s some sort of balance between being flexible and letting a client walk all over you. It’s not always easy to know exactly what to do when a writing client starts getting flaky or demanding. My personal trick is to simply get quiet for a few moments, asking internally what I should do, how I should respond. Usually it works out reasonably well.
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May 7th, 2008
Sonia Simone who writes the excellent copyblogger has a wonderful post called: What Romance Novels Can Teach You About Powerful Copywriting. It’s a great article, except it’s too limited.
The truth is, the principles Sonia point out about romance novels… what makes them work, will work for many more kinds of writing than just copy or romance. She’s right… make the reader suffer, or identify with their suffering, and then give them a solution… the heart and soul of self-help, country and folk music and much of the story telling we all do to each other. Call it suffering, call it heart, call it by some other name, it works, and as a writer you can make it work for you and your readers.
Write well and often,
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May 7th, 2008
I’m writing an ebook about how to get a book written and I want to contrast self-publishing with trade publishing. Here are the lists so far:
Self-publishing:
If you want a ghost, you will have to find and pay
If your book needs substantial, you will have to provide
You provide copy editing, ideally by hiring a professional
You provide book design
You provide, illustrations, charts, graphics if needed
You provide cover design
You write Back of Jacket Copy
You do all the marketing
POD* is fine if it’s just text or text with line illustrations, and it’s getting better all the time
No advance… you’ll be spending your own money
20% plus on cover price… no way to know what is average, but percentage can go way up, depending. You keep all the profit, but with proper marketing the expenses can be considerable.
Trade Publishing:
Publisher may provide ghostwriter
Publisher may provide substantial (rewrite) editing
Publisher will provide copy editing
Publisher does Book design (interior)
Illustrations, charts, graphics if needed – publisher will provide
Cover design - publisher
Back of Jacket copy written by them
Some marketing
Print quality might be better than POD
You may get an advance against royalties
7-10% return on net typical on cover price each book
What am I missing in either list?
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May 7th, 2008
Posted 55 Writing, Blogging, Editing and Translation Jobs this morning.
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May 6th, 2008
I’m going through one of those periods that astrologers lay off to mars in retrograde… lots of smallish things going wrong, and a couple of larger ones too. I won’t go into all the details, but I’m also having trouble with a clients, and I’d like your advice.
The first is a smallish contract for a book proposal. The client wants me to create a sample chapter and the rest of the sales pitch so she can circulate it to agents and/or publishers. We get along well, have had several phone appointments and are, I think (and she’s so indicated) closing in on her really quite unique style. In the last few days, she’s broken two, maybe three telephone appointments. She’s had a good reason, for each, but… and when I suggested a particular time on Friday she asked if instead I could meet with her on Saturday.
The question: Would you work on Saturday in this situation even though you normally don’t? Why? And if you didn’t, what would you tell the client.
Write well and often,
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May 6th, 2008
Over at Just Make Money Online has an article called: 12 Steps to Make Money Online with eBooks (and Other Ideas)
She sums it up pretty well, and even suggests you can take her steps and turn them into an ebook… well guess what? I wrote at an ebook called: Yes, YOU can make money with eBooks! As it happens I did it before Shai wrote her article… but I think it fleshes things out pretty well.
Write well and often,
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May 5th, 2008
You know, if you’ve followed this blog at all, that I’m a great believer in writers getting paid, and paid well. John Kremer, author of the excellent 1001 Ways to Market Your Books
and an excellent blog on the same topic has posted a YouTube video by author Harlan Ellison called Writers Should Be Paid!
Please, go watch it and listen to it, carefully! Then come back here and tell us what you think.
I think it’s wonderful and true.
Write well and often,
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