One of the greatest book series of modern times was rejected over and over before it was provisionally accepted. Even Stephen King has had his share of rejections. Elizabeth Kostova made headlines when her first book, The Historian, generated a $1 million advance. It was big news because it had never happened before. New authors…

Written By Christopher VanHise Freelancer is one of the most popular and fastest-expanding freelancing markets, having attracted more than 11.6 million users in just 5 years of operation. At the moment there are over 6 million projects listed on the site, thousands of which are writing jobs. With such a large pool of projects to…

In what was to many a great shock, Yahoo sent an email out to their thousands of contributing members informing them of the imminent shutdown of their contributor network. Effectively immediately, there will no further assignments accepted from the contributors. Assignments that had been submitted but not yet approved will be declined. The final payment…