Having read your stuff I can definitely say you're not charging enough at $25/hour.
You're right, really. But here's the thing...and it's worth a million bucks an hour to me...I get to work mostly from home. I spent so many years hiking down the BW parkway from Merryland to DC and that Baltimore Beltway that I just decided it was not worth it.
Which is not to say I am wealthy and do not need money. Heh. But when we up and moved to Delaware because Merryland was entirely too liberal and they were destroying us with property taxes, well circumstances and situations allowed me to work from home. Not that I work all that much but I do a bunch of different stuff.
I teach night school at the local district school, writing in fact. I work for the NWF cause I like birds. I write for little anthologies...chicken soup for the soul, that kind of thing. And I have written some books and I get little teeny tiny royalty checks. I do the accounting for my niece's beauty salon and hey, it's very rewarding. She's a little entrepreneur doing what the largest small business in this country does....styling hair. And I work for that property management firm up in Baltimore whenever they have an emergency.
So I'm cheap. I'm the cheapest kind of expertise you'll ever get. But I like what I'm doing and circumstances and situations allowed me to set up my life like this and I love to write. Not that you can't tell or anything.
Anyway, here's the scoop. I just got done writing the bestseller of the next decade.
Hand to God. And I got interest in this thing, I got lots of interest. Wow, I am doing okay down here in the swamps of Delaware because around Labor Day I will be doing a book signing and two days before that I will be the GUEST AUTHOR on a 2 hour radio show. Damn I'm good.
So this book....here's the scoop. It is just THE greatest book and the book store I'm doing the signing with, well that owner is in LOVE with my new book. And it isn't even but still in my computer.
The title, well I thought you'd never ask.
I am NOT making this up....it's called "Republican Sex".
This book has everything. Absolutely everything. Conservative values, erotic but not x-rated love scenes, a great love story...anyway that's the scoop.
I'm just a pretty American woman out here doing her thang and waiting to be discovered. Insert wink here.
And do ask me more about this "Republican Sex" book. I will not be insulted.