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<blockquote data-quote="The Grumpy Celt" data-source="post: 2411541" data-attributes="member: 1019">Tabling my usually bizarre jokes, allow me to say I take some umbrage with the assertions Mr. Pulsipher makes in his article. My experience is that I have been a reporter, journalist, photographer and am currently working as a PR man for a government agency. I also have some experience with RPG publishing, and have several books pending.First, the rates of pay he is discussing are somewhat rare, at least outside of large publications and/or magazines. Newspapers rarely pay those kinds of rates. Above and beyond that, in terms of sales, all RGPs work differently than most other kinds of publication. The target audience is terribly small, so they profit (if there is one) is small as well. They rarely carry advertising inside the book to help supplement costs and generate profit. Further, in my experience excessive wordiness and sloppy mechanics are owing to sloppiness on part of the writer and editor, not a deliberate and calculated attempt at churning out useless material in an effort to earn more money.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Grumpy Celt, post: 2411541, member: 1019"] Tabling my usually bizarre jokes, allow me to say I take some umbrage with the assertions Mr. Pulsipher makes in his article. My experience is that I have been a reporter, journalist, photographer and am currently working as a PR man for a government agency. I also have some experience with RPG publishing, and have several books pending. First, the rates of pay he is discussing are somewhat rare, at least outside of large publications and/or magazines. Newspapers rarely pay those kinds of rates. Above and beyond that, in terms of sales, all RGPs work differently than most other kinds of publication. The target audience is terribly small, so they profit (if there is one) is small as well. They rarely carry advertising inside the book to help supplement costs and generate profit. Further, in my experience excessive wordiness and sloppy mechanics are owing to sloppiness on part of the writer and editor, not a deliberate and calculated attempt at churning out useless material in an effort to earn more money. [/QUOTE]

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