bonny, it's so not your breath. It's probably a combination of inertia, tight budgets, and poor memories. At the costume contest, could you do a "$5 for 5 minutes" mini-session to hook people in with your serious doggie wisdom? And then offer a small discount for people who sign up right then? Even pick a dog from the audience and do a demonstration.

Just brainstorming.

I'm doing well. My coworker and I are going to keep researching and moving forward on the beads thing. Frankie got bitten at the park, by apparently a serial offender. Figuring out how to handle that. He's fine - vet clipped and flushed the wounds and put a staple in the bigger one.

Thanks amych, that's very helpful. I figure I've been editing this friends stuff for free for a couple years now, I might as well find a way to profit from it.

A little late, but yeah, I use the EFA and the Writer's Market rate guides to set my rates.

There's also differences between proofing, light and heavy copyediting.

If you're editing, like, critique AND line-edits, then the rate goes UP.

I'm raising my rates in November, but I generally charge about $30/hour for proofing, $35/hour for light copyedits, $45/hour for heavy, and $55/hour for editing.

Hope that helps!!

Thanks Erin, that does help. It's editing work that she has for me, I was gonna ask for $50 an hour.

$50 for editing is pretty decent, Burrell. Sounds good!

Have fun! I'm a freak -- I looooove editing and copyediting. *pets style guides and multiple dictionaries adoringly*

Erin. What is a fair rate for heavy layout for a glossy graphic heavy magazine? That includes cropping, sizing and do other types of graphic editing to raw graphics. Also stuff like working with client to select fonts. Maybe some critique -as in "I can't use that photo, provide another that does not have problem x".

The link you provided only went through newletters, but I presume magazines are a very different animal in terms of work and price.

Typo, I'm really sorry, but I don't have an answer. I have no experience with the graphics/layout/formatting end of publishing magazines.

I found this, and it might give you more of an idea to work with: [link]

I HATE not having answers! :(

Typo, I think any magazine would have its own staff who would do that. I work for an association that puts out a quarterly magazine; we've outsourced it to a publisher which takes care of layout, image editing, etc. When we were doing it in-house, the work was done by staff.

Even pick a dog from the audience and do a demonstration.

Inntterrresting. I could totally do a "kreskin' with an audience member.

I am going to do a raffle for email addresses...a free session.

How awful about Frankie getting bitten. Is he doing okay? Actually, I know the answer to that. How are YOU doing with it? Can you forgive and forget?

I guess the reason I asked about magazine, is that laying out the graphics and text in my second book is a lot like that. Another comparison is children's books. I hope to have the package ready to get quotes on in a matter of weeks now.