the freelance life

In which practical meerkat has a few words about money, writing, and freelancing

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from mb_galleycat at Most Authors Make Less Than $1,000 a Year: DBW “The majority of authors make less than $1,000 a year, according to a new report from Digital Book World. Almost 80% of self-published authors and more than half of traditionally published authors earn less than $1,000 a year, according to the report. A little more than 40 […]

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Five Things make a State of the Meerkat Sunday

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So let’s see where things stand, shall we?   1.  This weekend has mostly been me lazing about, and doing bits of things that need doing. Rather boring to blog about.  Except signing the contracts (finally!) for Gin & Tonic #3 & #4.  That’s always exciting. 2.  Today is father’s day. As I said elsewhere in the

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The State of the Meerkat, Saturday Morning edition.

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Writing: “Being in the devil’s debt was a damned uncomfortable thing.” It is entirely possible that I haven’t loved a book this much since writing STAYING DEAD. (my feelings for THE VINEART WAR were more akin to your first Bad News relationship, where you know you gotta even though everyone’s shaking their heads sadly at

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Can we have two Tuesdays instead of a Monday? I think that would work much better….

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Monday. Oh god, the Do-Board for today is more than slightly insane. But it’s (almost) all Good and Interesting, so yay? To Do: Deflag the copyedit for HEART OF BRIAR Look over the revisions letter for SOUL OF FIRE (yeah, mine editor was late with the revisions letter so I’m behind the schedule. Such as

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State of the Meerkat update, with bonus #Writerbrain

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“Let me get this right: you’re worried because your editor really liked the book, and didn’t find any major broken things you need to fix?” “Yes!….*pause*…That’s not normal?” “…*sighs*…” So maybe it’s just me, I don’t know.  My editor’s a smart, experienced woman, but I’m SURE the book has some major whoopsie in it… maybe

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