• Choose a category
• All
• Classic-Fiction

By Root 129 0

Happiness and The Moment of Truth: Women’s Funniest Romantic Catastrophes. In her fifteen years as a full-time freelancer, she’s had the opportunity to wrangle text on computer games, marital aids, dog pajamas, home colonics, and just about anything else that can be sold. She lives in Seattle with her eighty-pound lapdog, Buddy. For more scoop on the so-called freelance life, visit her blog at Anti9to5Guide.com.

Selected Titles from Seal Press

For more than thirty years,

Seal Press has published groundbreaking books.

By women. For women.

Visit our website at www.sealpress.com.

Check out the Seal Press blog at www.sealpress.com/blog.

The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube, by Michelle Goodman. $14.95, 1-58005-186-3. Escape the wage-slave trap of your cubicle with Goodman’s hip career advice on creating your dream job and navigating the work world without compromising your aspirations.

The Boss of You: Everything A Woman Needs to Know to Start, Run, and Maintain Her Own Business, by Emira Mears & Lauren Bacon. $15.95, 1-58005-236-3. Provides women entrepreneurs the advice, guidance, and straightforward how-to’s they need to start, run, and maintain a business.

Own It!: The Ups and Downs of Homebuying for Women Who Go It Alone, by Jennifer Musselman. $15.95, 1-58005-230-4. This mix of guidebook how-to and personal narrative covers the how-to’s and hiccups of homebuying for women braving the process alone.

The Money Therapist: A Woman’s Guide to Creating A Healthy Financial Life, by Marcia Brixey. $15.95, 1-58005-216-9. Offers women of every financial strata the tools they need to manage their money, set attainable budget goals, get out of debt, and create a healthy financial life.

Job Hopper: The Checkered Career of a Down-Market Dilettante, by Ayun Halliday. $14.95, 1-58005-130-8. Halliday, quickly becoming one of America’s funniest writers, chronicles her hilarious misadventures in the working world.

Getting Unstuck Without Coming Unglued: A Woman’s Guide to Unblocking Creativity, by Susan O’Doherty, Ph.D. $14.95, 1-58005-206-1. This encouraging and practical book is about understanding blocks in the creative process and getting to the bottom of what causes them.

My So-Called Freelance Life

How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire

Copyright © 2008 by Michelle Goodman

Published by

Seal Press

A Member of Perseus Books Group

1700 Fourth Street

Berkeley, California

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without written permission from the publisher, except by reviewers who may quote brief excerpts in connection with a review.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Goodman, Michelle, 1967-My so-called freelance life : how to survive and thrive as a creative professional for hire / by Michelle Goodman. p. cm.

eISBN : 978-0-786-72627-1

1. Self-employed. 2. Career development. I. Title.

HD8036.G66 2008

650.1—dc22

2008020825