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| Author: | Phillip Blanchard [ Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | 'Fun' Redefined |
Company: Ellora's Cave Publishing Position: Fun Job for Out of Work Journalists Description: Ellora's Cave, the premier publisher of erotic romance novels, seeks professional copy editors and content/development editors. Pay is per word and checks are issued every other week. Content editor rate is USD $0.0075 cents per word and copy editor pay is $0.00175 per word ($0.0015 per word during training). Book lengths range from 10,000 to 120,000 words. (JournalismJobs.com) |
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| Author: | Powderhorn [ Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 'Fun' Redefined |
$15 to $180 for a "book"? Is the assumption that the supposed self-gratification aspect is worth more than money? (Incidentally, this is a good place to use basis points to make everything sound better.) |
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| Author: | Editer [ Sat Nov 14, 2009 1:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 'Fun' Redefined |
I'm sort of the king of "Hey, that's not completely awful" around here, I guess, but even I wouldn't sign on for that project. I might reconsider if I knew that the content/development editors made sure the prose was semi-passable (or that the company's standards were low) so that I could do the whole thing on a single, fast pass. I can sort of see blazing through 120K words in two days for $210 after the "training" period, but the odds of getting a complete mess and orders to make it readable are too great IMHO. |
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