Freelancer Summary June 2014

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Author, Editor, Media Tie-In Writer

Writer Advice
July 2, 2014

Ever wonder what a freelance author/editor does? Each month of 2014, I’m going to list my daily notes on what I do. As I always say, being your own boss means you choose with 70 hours of the week you work. None of this talks about the random pub IMs, time doing research, time reading books for blurbs, introductions, and reviews, or short author questions. It doesn’t cover my pays-the-bills work either. This is just publishing industry stuff. “Answered pub industry email” can be anything from a request for an interview, to contract queries, to reading anthology invites, to answering questions about dates… and the list goes on.

June
Sunday 2014.06.01	Answered pub industry email. Blog post.
2014.06.02	Answered pub industry email. AIP blog post. Wrote the Origins Game Fair convention card. Edits on Famished: The Commons. Approved cover art.
2014.06.03	Answered pub industry email. Freelancer summary blog post. Edits on Famished: The Commons.
2014.06.04	Answered pub industry email. A whole lot of Origins Game Fair prep as a dealer and as a panelist.
2014.06.05	Answered pub industry email. Final edits on Apocalypse Girl Dreaming.
2014.06.06	Final edits on Apocalypse Girl Dreaming.
2014.06.07	Answered pub industry email. Final edits on Apocalypse Girl Dreaming.

Sunday 2014.06.08	Final edits on Apocalypse Girl Dreaming. Pre-pack prep for Origins.
2014.06.09	Answered pub industry email. Final edits on Apocalypse Girl Dreaming. Pre-pack prep for Origins.
2014.06.10	Final edits on Apocalypse Girl Dreaming and emailed to publisher. Pack and travel to Origins Game Fair.
2014.06.11	Origins Game Fair. Dealer table setup. Answered pub industry email.
2014.06.12	Origins Game Fair. Dealer table. Panels.
2014.06.13	Origins Game Fair. Dealer table. Panels.
2014.06.14	Origins Game Fair. Dealer table. Panels.

Sunday 2014.06.15	Origins Game Fair. Dealer table tear down. Panels. Answered pub industry email.
2014.06.16	Answered pub industry email. Travel home from Origins Game Fair.
2014.06.17	Answered pub industry email. Project expense summary projection on potential project. Invoice client. Pub industry phone call x2. Contract negotiation. Blog Post.
2014.06.18	Answered pub industry email. Blog Post. AIP Blog Post. Noted freelance expenses from Origins. Contract negotiation. Googlegroup management for both AIP and JenniferBrozek.
2014.06.19	Answered pub industry email. Practice reading for live event. Edits on Famished: The Commons.
2014.06.20	Answered pub industry email. Reading at Waywards. Edits on Famished: The Commons.
2014.06.21	Answered pub industry email. Contract negotiation. Edits on Famished: The Commons.

Sunday 2014.06.22	Finished edits on Famished: The Commons. Pub industry phone call. Back cover copy for Flotsam 1: Exile.
2014.06.23	Editorial reading on The Bringer of War. Invoiced a client.
2014.06.24	Answered pub industry email. Editorial reading on The Bringer of War. Blog announcement of Chicks Dig Gaming.
2014.06.25	Answered pub industry email. Editorial reading on The Bringer of War. Facebook interview.
2014.06.26	Answered pub industry email. Back cover copy for The Bringer of War. Editorial reading on The Bringer of War. Anthology story pitch.
2014.06.27	Editorial reading on The Bringer of War.
2014.06.28	Answered pub industry email. Editorial reading on The Bringer of War. Contract negotiation. Approving new cover art.

Sunday 2014.06.29	Answered pub industry email. Editorial notes for The Bringer of War. Contract negotiation. Signed and returned Melissa Allen series contract.
2014.06.30	Answered pub industry email. Final polish of Exile: Flotsam 1. Blog announcement of Melissa Allen series sale. AIP Blog announcement of Cross Cutting trilogy acquisition.

Meet Jennifer Brozek

Jennifer Brozek is a multi-talented, award-winning author, editor, and media tie-in writer. She is the author of Never Let Me Sleep and The Last Days of Salton Academy, both of which were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Her YA tie-in novels, BattleTech: The Nellus Academy Incident and Shadowrun: Auditions, have both won Scribe Awards. Her editing work has earned her nominations for the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and multiple Hugo Awards. She won the Australian Shadows Award for the Grants Pass anthology, co-edited with Amanda Pillar. Jennifer’s short form work has appeared in Apex Publications, Uncanny Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, and in anthologies set in the worlds of Valdemar, Shadowrun, V-Wars, Masters of Orion, Well World, and Predator.

Jennifer has been a full-time freelance author and editor for over seventeen years, and she has never been happier. She keeps a tight schedule on her writing and editing projects and somehow manages to find time to teach writing classes and volunteer for several professional writing organizations such as SFWA, HWA, and IAMTW. She shares her husband, Jeff, with several cats and often uses him as a sounding board for her story ideas. Visit Jennifer’s worlds at jenniferbrozek.com or her social media accounts on LinkTree.

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