Freelancer Summary October 2014

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Author, Editor, Media Tie-In Writer

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November 1, 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.

October
2014.10.01	Answered pub industry email. AIP and JenniferBrozek Googlegroup posts. Contract negotiation. Freelancer Summary blog post. Wrote 308 words on co-written Lovecraft story. Submitted story to Jim Baen Memorial contest.
2014.10.02	Answered pub industry email. Logged expenses for Context 27. Conversation with new editorial intern. Wrote 150 words on co-written Lovecraft story, edited it, and sent it back to co-author. Submitted novel for an award.
2014.10.03	Answered pub industry email. Wrote 850 words on Locus article.
2014.10.04	Answered pub industry email. Wrote back cover copy for The Beast Within 4: Gears & Growls. Edited Locus article and turned it in. Poke authors who miss deadlines.

Sunday 2014.10.05	Answered pub industry email. Filled out convention survey. Edits on co-written Lovecraft story. Approved cover images for AIP books.
2014.10.06	Answered pub industry email. “Tell Me” blog post. Outlined Shadowrun story. Wrote 47 words on the Shadowrun story.
2014.10.07	Answered pub industry email. AIP Blog post. Personal Blog post. Wrote 578 words on the Shadowrun story. Cover art for anthology. AIP work for book bundle.
2014.10.08	Answered pub industry email. Proofs on Locus article. Wrote 2419 words on the Shadowrun story.
2014.10.09	Answered pub industry email. AIP PR stuff. Wrote 2805 words on the Shadowrun story. November releases PR work.
2014.10.10	Wrote 253 words on the Shadowrun story, edited it, and turned it in. Blurb for a book. Updated personal blog. Joined Authorgraph.com
2014.10.11	Answered pub industry email. Updated personal blog. Joined Authorgraph.com. Horror Selfie.

Sunday 2014.10.12	Answered pub industry email.
2014.10.13	Answered pub industry email. Signed Editorial contract. AIP Blog. New “Tell Me” Blog. Approved layout of Gears & Growls. Poked artists with sticks.
2014.10.14	Answered pub industry email. Bubble and Squeek post. Prepped Chimera Incarnate and sent it to editor. Poked artists with sticks. Outlined Nun story.
2014.10.15	Answered pub industry email. Invoiced a client. Wrote 100 words on the Nun story. Book bundle contract.
2014.10.16	Answered pub industry email. Emailed Book bundle resources to publisher. Approve book cover. Approve bookblock for AGD. Wrote 710 words on the Nun story. Anthology cover approval.
2014.10.17	Answered pub industry email. Wrote 1277 words on the Nun story. Convention survey.
2014.10.18	Answered pub industry email. Wrote 468 words on the Nun story.

Sunday 2014.10.19	Answered pub industry email. PR approval.
2014.10.20	Tell Me blog post. Wrote 662 words on the Nun story. Apocalypse Girl Dreaming cover reveal.
2014.10.21	Answered pub industry email. Personal Blog post. Wrote 1884 words on the Nun story.
2014.10.22	Answered pub industry email. Wrote 713 words on the Nun story.
2014.10.23	Answered pub industry email. Wrote 286 words on the Nun story and edited it.
2014.10.24	Answered pub industry email. Final edits on Flotsam 2, FROST.
2014.10.25	Answered pub industry email. Final edits on Flotsam 2, FROST.

Sunday 2014.10.26	Answered pub industry email. Sent FROST off to proofer. Valdemar story pitch.
2014.10.27	Answered pub industry email. AIP blog post. Process feedback on Nun story.
2014.10.28	Answered pub industry email. Personal blog post. Process feedback on Nun story.
2014.10.29	Answered pub industry email. NaNo prep. Wrote the OryCon convention card. Paid PA.
2014.10.30	Answered pub industry email. Character studies for Never Let Me Leave. Process feedback on Nun story and added 200 words.
2014.10.31	Answered pub industry email. Print OryCon convention card. Process edits for Dreams of a Thousand Young and turned it back in. Turned in Nun story.

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 the Hugo Award. 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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