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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abulia" data-source="post: 425078" data-attributes="member: 8162">Just to provide some additional quantifiable data…Out of all my projects in the past six years, the average has been .05 a word, two royalty-based, and the current rate for the last four projects have been .06 a word. I personally would have a difficult time accepting a job that paid .04 or less unless it was something I was really in love with. (Development rates have been .02 to .03 per word but that's a different beast.)I do not consider myself well-known. I do consider myself to have enough business sense, professionalism, and negotiation skills to get these rates, however. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I believe who you're courting plays (obviously) a large part in the rate schedule. Most small-press d20 publishers--presumably where the bulk of the people who frequent these boards offer their talent--are probably in the .02 to .04 range. Also considering the number of writers willing to do pretty much anything to get published, it's not hard to imagine why those rates are so low.I'm with Erik; people need to start refusing that low paying work. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Respectfully,Don Mappin</blockquote>

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