Land on Demand Editing Proofreading Indexing

Don't give up the day job. Not for a long time. Getting starting in freelancing can be hard. Being a full-time productive freelancer -- ...

Give or take a couple of missing Hebrew alephs (in the place of the close parens) and a Greek character or two, and that the letters in brac...

THE BACKSTORY I’ve spent almost all of my blogging energy talking about what it’s like to be a freelance editor/proofreader/indexer. Now’s t...

This is real-time work here. I just seconds ago sent the following email to a new client, and I post it here mostly so I'll have it to r...

A quick story from the Land on Demand annals. I was working for a typesetting and design firm in Atlanta (name forgotten) along with one of ...

Anonymous commented on my blog on 1/3/2009: If you want to proof titles, send an e-mail with your resume to: TitlingTeam@demandstudios.com T...

I don't care much for music videos. I don't even particularly like this one, but the music is quite fine. Just a very strange conflu...

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/obits/stories//2009/01/21/Tim_Bentley_obituary.html Yes, folks, smoking kills. I'd post the follo...

I occasionally speak to two types of local groups: writers' groups and college English classes. I'm not sure if there's any inhe...

I've posted more than a few complaints on this blog about the nature of my work. Actually I got into a mild dust-up today with a publish...

Some folks shouldn't try to think too much. I'm probably one of them. I'm working on the third edition of a book. The second edi...

I'm trying so hard to get through this book. I really, really want it to be over, and I'm within about 7 hours of getting there, inc...

two comments: 1. i hate the video editing. 2. it's amazing to think what these guys could do if they ever looked at their instruments.

The inspiration for this post comes from bloggoddess Moi, who commented on my previous missive: Shouldn't the publisher be running this ...

I've said it before. And my new year's message is the same. What is it about authors that make them think they can just spew the mos...

First day after the long Christmas weekend, and I got some answers and some feedback on the late-payments issue. I spoke with a managing ed...

Unbelievable. Got an answer within hours. Enjoy.

Feedjit's amazing . . . well, if you're looking for distractions from 800-page manuscripts. Over the last few weeks, traffic on this...

My list of clients who are late in paying me -- past 30 days -- is getting a little long. And that's mighty frustrating. These are reput...

A few posts ago, "Work extra hard so someone else doesn't have to," I wondered about a client that told me to pay particular a...