Rate Transparency Report (Fall 2024)
Foreword Literary Consulting conducts semiannual rate transparency reports to provide all who hire contractors for these key publishing deliverables with more reactive, real-time data than the annual survey, encouraging fair, responsive, and responsible pay for all they engage with on a freelance/contract basis.
New This Report
Many potential clients approach independent writers, editors, and designers with the big question of “What have you done that I would know?” And while that’s certainly fair to ask, the path for a published book to enter a cultural zeitgeist is, more-often-than-not, entirely out of the independent collaborator’s control.
To debunk and contextualize the ways that independent writers, editors, and designers quantify their success beyond quality of work, pages 6, 7 and 8 of this report include comparison graphs showing the ways that three metrics inform, influence, or exist entirely separate from each other. The three metrics are:
Years of Experience
Number of Books Worked On
Number of Bestseller Lists and/or Awards Won by Previous Books
Foreword Literary Consulting conducts semiannual rate transparency reports to provide all who hire contractors for these key publishing deliverables with more reactive, real-time data than the annual survey, encouraging fair, responsive, and responsible pay for all they engage with on a freelance/contract basis.
New This Report
Many potential clients approach independent writers, editors, and designers with the big question of “What have you done that I would know?” And while that’s certainly fair to ask, the path for a published book to enter a cultural zeitgeist is, more-often-than-not, entirely out of the independent collaborator’s control.
To debunk and contextualize the ways that independent writers, editors, and designers quantify their success beyond quality of work, pages 6, 7 and 8 of this report include comparison graphs showing the ways that three metrics inform, influence, or exist entirely separate from each other. The three metrics are:
Years of Experience
Number of Books Worked On
Number of Bestseller Lists and/or Awards Won by Previous Books
Foreword Literary Consulting conducts semiannual rate transparency reports to provide all who hire contractors for these key publishing deliverables with more reactive, real-time data than the annual survey, encouraging fair, responsive, and responsible pay for all they engage with on a freelance/contract basis.
New This Report
Many potential clients approach independent writers, editors, and designers with the big question of “What have you done that I would know?” And while that’s certainly fair to ask, the path for a published book to enter a cultural zeitgeist is, more-often-than-not, entirely out of the independent collaborator’s control.
To debunk and contextualize the ways that independent writers, editors, and designers quantify their success beyond quality of work, pages 6, 7 and 8 of this report include comparison graphs showing the ways that three metrics inform, influence, or exist entirely separate from each other. The three metrics are:
Years of Experience
Number of Books Worked On
Number of Bestseller Lists and/or Awards Won by Previous Books