I’m working on building a professional website, and plan to include an About, Portfolio and Contact page. Is there any other information that, in your experience, an editor would want to find on a freelancer’s site? On a basic level, these categories are fine. But I do think you can offer a bit more than […]

Talk to any successful freelancer and a few things will come up repeatedly: Don’t take rejection personally, approach it as you would any other business, set up a website, network, pitch, pitch, pitch.  I’ll add another thing that has been crucial in my success as a freelancer: Know that you CAN. This month, I’ve heard […]

You announced your pregnancy pretty openly and I was wondering what kind of response you got from your editors? Do you think you may be getting fewer assignments as a result of this or that editors might find that you’re less dependable if you’ve been keeping sick? My husband and I are planning a family […]

I’m always a bit amused when people think that between being a freelancer and having a regular 9-5 job, freelancing is the easier option. “I’ve never met a stressed freelancer,” someone said to me the other day and I had to bite my lip from responding and saying something snarky in return. Because in my […]