Since baron_elric left for DC, my work has gone from little to none. I have (had?) one client left that was sending me steady work for a half-decent rate: Wiley.

Then two weeks ago my main contact there left. I was left with only one contact.

Today she tells me that she's leaving next weekPrayer, folks. I need work desperately. Pray that something will turn ( Read more... )

I am beginning to realize I was a very different production manager/managing editor than many out there in trade publishing nowadays ( Read more... )

A surprise came by UPS day yesterday afternoon: a package from Godiva. In it, a card, from "a fellow freelancer ( Read more... )

Last month I did what turned into a one-day gig at what was a promising book packager in the area. Textbooks, but we can't all work in the bestseller market, now can we? It was well situated, and turned out to be a place that had eaten another packager I'd done work for back in the 1990s -- they like me, and I liked them ( Read more... )