Working Like Mad in August and Some Bragging
It’s been a busy month: two strategy guide copyedits, some business writing, some volunteer writing for UUSS, ongoing editing of chapters of a massage therapy textbook, an editing exam completed and passed for a new client, and five days of in-house proofreading for two magazine for shipout.
Work Done = LOTS
Income this month = SUCKY, like barely into four digits.
Income next month = MUCH BETTER
I saw my aunt and uncle from Minnesota on Saturday night. They were visiting and we celebrated my mother’s birthday (it was the first time she and her four siblings have been together in one place in 6 years). Anyway, my uncle Mike is the one who works for a religious press in St. Paul. I edited two books for them in 2004 and 2005. Mike said the references for the Bakke book were just about the toughest refs (footnotes and bibliography) they’ve had in years, which was a relief because I CRIED and SWEATED and BLED getting those refs right!
http://www.augsburgfortress.org/store/item.asp?ISBN=0800636988&CLSID=157771&PRODUCTGROUPID=-1
http://www.augsburgfortress.org/store/item.asp?ISBN=0800637259&CLSID=157766&PRODUCTGROUPID=-1
Well, my uncle and aunt both independently praised my work on those two books. Tatha said that the books read beautifully and that I did a marvelous job. Mike said that the editors I worked for on those two projects both left and that’s why they didn’t return my messages, not because the publisher didn’t like my work as I had feeared.
My aunt, Tatha Wiley, is a brainiac extraordinaire and religious scholar with a doctorate in divinity. This is her latest book:
Paul and the Gentile Women
Reframing Galatians
by Tatha Wiley
T & T Clark,2005
168 pages,English
Paper,5.5 x 8.5
ISBN: 0826417078
List Price: $27.95
Your Price: $22.36
www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~I~WILPAULAN
Here’s a page showing all of her published works:
http://pokermagazine.com/cgi-bin/apf4/amazon_products_feed.cgi?Operation=ItemSearch&SearchIndex=Books&Author=Tatha%20Wiley
Tatha is currently editing a six-book series and she said she’d love it if I were the copyeditor for the series! (She’s also putting me in touch with other editors she knows.)
Mike said that he’ll send me a list of 2007 titles so I can choose some to edit for Fortress!
So, yay me! Networking and family helps, but my hard work and skills are appreciated!
August 22, 2006 at 10:57 am
Congratulations!
August 22, 2006 at 11:22 am
I’m really trying hard to work up the energy to pretend that I’m surprised.
But I’m not.
You are just damn good. Accept your lot in life my friend, you’re stuck with it.
August 22, 2006 at 12:50 pm
Thank you. Working by myself for myself can be a little weird at times. Isolation can breed insecurity pretty quickly, and since I never see my clients, it’s hard to know if they’re happy with my work or not. Sometimes it’s like pulling teeth to get any feedback at all. And then I feel weird because I must look like I’m fishing for compliments, which I am.