by Deb Ng
Happy Sunday. Here are a few leads before I set out to rake some leaves. Hope there’s somthing useful here for you!
Leads…
- Freelance Bloggers
- Snowboard/Wakeboard Bloggers
- Web Copywriter - Philadelphia
- Looking for Experienced Business Research Writer – $900
- Freelance Writers Needed for Sports Site
- Blogger Wanted
- Freelance Writer for Self Help Articles – $10
- Experienced SEO Writers Needed – $12 per
- Writers for Blogs, Forums, Web SEO
- Book Editor Needed
- Writer Needed for Naughty Fairtales
- Sales Copy Writer
- Letter Converted from English to Spanish - Grand/Ogden IL – $25
- Short, Old Fashioned Love Stories – $50 per
- Restaurant Reviewer - Houston
- Student Business Plan Writer - Houston – $250
- Content Writers Needed for Online Casino
- Celebrity Entertainment Reporter - Las Vegas/Telecommute
- Writer for Lifestyle Home & Living Publication Las Vegas
- Ghost Writer for True Life Wiseguy Story
- Freelance Writers for Psychopedia - $100 per
- TV Website Needs Experienced TV/Show Biz Writers - L.A., NYC/Telecommute
- Blogger to Write About Web Design & Development – $10 per post
- Bloggers Needed $25 per post
- Music Bio Writer Needed – Los Angeles – $75
- Website Needs 2 Bloggers – Los Angeles
- Articles for Webmaster Blog
- Sales Letter Writer
- Seeking Journalist/Author – CA – .02 per word (I know!)
- Business Plan Writer – $50
- Article Writer – $10 per
- Business Plan Writer
Hope you’re having a good Sunday!
- Deb
wow deb – eager beaver! =)
@Andy – I was feeling ambitious, what can I say.
Well, don’t let us get in your way
The first freelance bloggers job says this in the ad:
Payment is on a lo/no/deferred basis.
not sure what that means but it doesn’t sound good
Oh and the freelance writer for self-help articles their website says you have to buy a subscription first before you can apply – “only $7 a month”
This is not at all a criticism of this blog – I enjoy this service so keep it up please – but some of these people must be joking. Imagine if you were asking around for a builder and telling them you’d pay them 2c a nail. They’d tell you to go jump. Don’t give in to these sharks. Only accept reasonable (or excellent) pay.
Yes.. I looked at the Naughty Fairytales.
Pay is ‘neg ….shouldn’t take much of your time’
Not a good sign when the client wont appreciate the time and effort it takes to create fiction.. Erotic or not.
Thanks Kathy. Good to have you at our back!
I agree Seamus, it’s a very low wage.
Heather – The client isn’t a writer so I don’t expect she’d have a clue.
In terms of wages, there’s a Web site put together by a romance author – http://brendahiatt.com.hosting.domaindirect.com/id2.html – that includes the responses she’s gotten from many authors detailing how much they make per book (1st and subsequent) and then their royalties. I asked my contact at Penguin what a typical word count is for a submission and was told at least 80,000 on average, but it really depends on the line. So if a book earned what they say the Median advance – $5,000 – that’s about 6 cents a word. They do get royalties once their books have sold more than they were paid with the advance, but the average there is 6 percent.
This is information that anyone can find, so I’m betting those who do try to find what wages writers are making so that they can write the ads sometimes look to see what the authors are making – see things like 6 cents and figure that they can go much lower and be fine.
Thanks for the Sunday post — nice treat to start the week.
On romance author wages — or any book first time around is rather low with royalties. Top ones pay $40,000 a book with new writers doing multiple rewrites.
@Kenna – I actually got to interview Nicholas Sparks a couple of years ago. He is one of the very rare few who was offered a book contract on his first book for a million dollars. I remember him saying that he and his wife couldn’t believe the call was for real and that suddenly he went from someone barely getting by on $40k a year to millionaire. So higher contracts exist, but you have to have a very marketable idea.