Dec 21, 2024
This year's one bum client--fortunately, also my only serious bum client in years
It's annoying to realize/accept that a would-be client seems to have taken my work without paying for it, but at least that hasn't happened before in almost 14 years of freelancing. That's not nothing, right?
Nearing year-end accounting usually reminds me of story ideas that I’d meant to follow up and then never sold to anybody, but this year it also involves some unpaid work that I probably can’t do anything about. Which is unfortunate but also fortunately rare in my experience. This episode started March 1, when I got an e-mail from an editor at GQ China named Xu Zhu asking if I would like to write…
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