The Paper It's Written On: Defining your relationship with an editing client

You're an independent editor. That means you're a professional running a business.But you may not be a professional at running a business. You keep hearing that you should have a written contract with every client, but you don't have a good idea of what that contract should have in it, so you let it slide and hope you don't get burned. And when you look in books about running a small business, none of them seem to address your specific needs.The Paper It's Written On focuses on your specific needs, particularly when you are working with individual authors.