Meghan, thank you for this very useful post! I have to admit that, as a blogger, I rarely (never) back up my work. This created problems last year when my French cooki...
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What you cut and pasted here is pretty on par with what I think of as normal industry rates. SWP charges $60/hour for copyediting. Obviously this is a tricky space bec...
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Emily, this is great! Also, just by coincidence I was Googling The Raleigh Review (this morning!), a literary mag where I serve as a volunteer fiction reader, and I st...
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Hi Lisa. Well, I tend to charge by the hour for projects where I'm coming in midstream -- if you go to the Editorial Freelancers Association website, www.efa.org, they...
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As a woman of 51 who (apart from a couple of minor things) hasn't really been published yet, I cannot but concur. Such lists should not even exist, because writing is...
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Anna, this made me laugh. Great goal -- I'll do my best! But last week I wrote a short blog entry responding to Vida, with reasons why my submission rates aren't high....
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Thanks for the discussion. Olga, I hear where you're coming from -- it can be hard to know whether hearing difficult news from an editor is just ego flaring up, or whe...
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Back in the day, I was a great letter writer. I wrote a letter almost every day. That was what some might consider journaling. I attended college back when a long dist...
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Isn't self-loathing a form of vanity... at its cruelest, perhaps, but... it's still all about "I" and "me". If vanity is our "inner princess", then self-loathing is...
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