Re: how binding is an assignment?

**B*@aol.com**

>I fear that 
there are only perhaps a dozen or so writers who actually derive a large 
income from specializing in garden-writing. Maybe I'm wrong?<  

Nancy,

That's generally true about any writer who specializes in a hobby field. A 
few, for whatever reason, are in demand by top-paying media, and the rest 
struggle along on their spouse's incomes.

I don't refer to myself as a garden writer, for instance, because that's a 
very small part of what I do. I'm just a freelance writer, who will take on 
any assignment for which somebody is willing to cut an adequate check. As you 
know, but which few on this list seem to realize,  the _only_ byline that 
counts is the one where it says "pay to the order of."

Your division of two magazine worlds is a bit parochial. Typical of New York 
media people (I used to be one), though. The fact is, the sun does _not_ rise 
and set over Manhatten, and many of us in the rest of the world do, indeed, 
face the same expenses and work conditions you do. Only with less immediate 
access to media, which, perhaps, makes our job even more difficult. 

Brook
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