tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090979633822979041.post7157371217399213683..comments2023-07-01T11:09:28.113-04:00Comments on Land on Demand Editing Proofreading Indexing: Money money money followupczarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00848336357897046488noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090979633822979041.post-91609784211676213092008-12-31T10:50:00.000-05:002008-12-31T10:50:00.000-05:00Here in Nuevo Mexico, unless you work for the Univ...Here in Nuevo Mexico, unless you work for the University, the Gooberment, or the Labs, you got more than one job, anyway. So I'm used to doing fifty bazillion things for a buck at one time.<BR/><BR/>In other words: "Underground Economy R Us!"moihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090979633822979041.post-85506821778689424702008-12-30T20:33:00.000-05:002008-12-30T20:33:00.000-05:00Don:In regard to your second point, yikes and doub...<B>Don:</B><BR/><BR/>In regard to your second point, yikes and double yikes. I guess the potential is there that the people still on staff will throw work to their now-unemployed friends, thus displacing the established freelancers. I suppose if I paid more attention to the news or dropped a few hundred bucks a year on <I>Publisher's Weekly</I>, I'd know what companies you're talking about. Maybe it's best I don't know. And the news doesn't travel down here to the border country that much . . . especially since I discontinued the local rag as a cost-cutting measure about a month ago.<BR/><BR/>I have maintained for 20-something years that a bad economy benefits established freelancers. Might be time to change my thinking. I hope not. At least we have our individual foots in the doors. Maybe we can use the other foots to kick back the competition, although I don't like thinking that way. But, metaphorically, baby needs shoes.<BR/><BR/>Another point from my perspective is that in scholarly and religious publishing, the demand for high sales is not always there, but as another (older and wiser) freelancer told me, if the money going into the collection plates is down and endowments are down . . . <BR/><BR/>So far, I've heard from none of my publishers that they are publishing fewer books because of the economy, but more just the up-and-down cycle of some seasons are busier than others. I've actually had one publisher say that I'm going to be very busy in the coming months. Of course, the work they send me sometimes drives me crazy, but being too choosy isn't part of the game plan right now.czarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10887869458750797012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090979633822979041.post-16085318065922883542008-12-30T18:29:00.000-05:002008-12-30T18:29:00.000-05:00(To other readers, I apologize for the following t...(To other readers, I apologize for the following tidbit of inside baseball):<BR/><BR/><B>Moi:</B> As I am reading your comment, UPS just delivered <I>St. Pete</I>, for which I have been paid to date exactly $107. Isn't that a kick in the rear?czarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10887869458750797012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090979633822979041.post-4187306119530113402008-12-30T08:33:00.000-05:002008-12-30T08:33:00.000-05:00You and I have had this discussion before, so you ...You and I have had this discussion before, so you know how I feel about this subject. It is beyond frustrating to me that so many freelancers are continually put in the position to pretty please with sugar on top BEG for money that belongs to us, for work that we have completed in a timely manner, and which is currently being USED by our clients. AND we can't do what every other business justifiably does in situations like this – that is, charge interest – makes me realize once again how low on the totem pole writers and editors squat.moihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.com