Re: Okay all you independent contractors: hit the bricks with THIS

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>]

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From: "Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: July 08, 2003 10:56 AM
Subject: Okay all you independent contractors: hit the bricks with THIS


>
> Looking for work?
>
> At the instigation of an executive here, I purchased a $495 tome (using
Other People's Money) written by some well known and well connected management
consultants. It's a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, and the executive who asked me
to make the purchase is still on vacation; so I'm trying to plow through this
tome before he gets back. And this is a follow-up to reading a couple of other
consultant-written reports in the same general field that he dropped on my
desk last week.
>
> Okay, you and I know that most management consultants can't write their way
out of a paper bag. In fact, if they had to limit themselves to sentences that
would fit on a paper bag when written in grease pencil, their writing would
improve.
>
> So why haven't tech writers penetrated the consulting world and proven their
value? Yes, I know there are firms that employ TWs. But it seems to me there
are an awful lot that don't employ them, or don't employ enough of them,
anyway.
>
> I did my part: I wrote to the authors of the $495 rough draft, as a
customer, and asked how much more they would have charged had they employed a
competent editor to turn it into an actual book.
>
> Now it's your turn to follow up and get the job ;-)
>

Please send me the name and address of the publisher.

And did you say $495 for a book?

___________________________________
Bonnie Granat
Granat Editorial Services
http://www.editors-writers.info




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