Payment for "Tickles the Clown" was $250.00. That works out to about seven cents a word, or $8.33 an hour, based on thirty hours of work. Those figures are surprisingly respectable. I was hoping my money made/time spent ratio was going to be dramatically more pathetic, but it looks like I'm [...]
The daughter of Russian Mennonite immigrants, Elsie K. Neufeld has written two non-fiction books: Dancing in the Dark: A Sister Grieves (Herald Press, 1990) and The Past Inside the Present (1996). She has taught life-writing classes in various venues with the guiding principle that "the ordinary is the extraordinary." As editor, [...]
