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, […]
Back in March I speculated about what I’d do when my $600 rebate arrived. Today, with the announcement that the first rebates were deposited today, I looked back at my post.
I was tickled to see that I managed to order a new couch and get bookcases without the rebate. But I’m still not sure what […]
Who do you believe? How can you tell? My bank insisted it was the client’s bank who refused payment. My client insists it was my bank. I certainly can’t tell looking at all the numbers and stamps that have appeared on a color copy of the check in question. My hunch is both banks are, […]
You answer an ad and they respond, telling you they love you and they have a ton of work coming. Visions of dollars dance in your head.
You sign a contract for $x a month, and for the first month or two, payments arrive promptly, and then stop. All your efforts to contact the client end […]
Arghhhhh… I’m trying to renegotiate a writing contract and I’m having real trouble understanding the numbers involved… I sent what I thought was a clear proposal to the client and he’s replied, but his understanding of the dollar amount is quite different than mine.
After spending yet another half hour on this I realized that I […]
One of the challenges with ghostwriting is timing projects in such a way that payment is more or less smooth. I try to set up monthly payments when I contract for a book, and that works, except when it doesn’t.
For example:
One of my contracts needs to be renegotiated because conditions changed. I won’t know […]
You just never know. In the midst of a whole bunch of un-fun stuff, including chasing a delayed payment, the phone rang. I found myself talking with two delightful gals about a book proposal.
Apparently they’d hired someone and were quite unsatisfied with the job. As we chatted it became obvious they wanted to know […]
Freelance writers are always wondering about their pricing. We talk a lot about it on the forum. My pricing has come to my attention in a couple of ways.
The first is a ghostwriting project. The job came through a broker and, as a result, was less than I would have liked to charge. I like […]
Lori Widmer rants nicely and accurately about the people who want to hire freelance writers on the basis of royalties only. I’m definitely in her camp. I won’t accept a royalty contract only. In fact a current client just suggested I do his second book for 50%. I explained I can’t afford to work for […]
Late last year I had a face-to-face interview with a potential client. He wanted his story ghostwritten. We did a Visioning, for which I was paid and I promised to draft a contract.
The following day I send the contract draft, answered some questions and pretty much figured we had a deal. There was a delay […]
Making good money as a freelance writer
Written by Anne Wayman [email] for b5media.
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