Collaboration Nuts and Bolts (a/k/a Terms and Conditions)
To make sure our partnership goes as well as I anticipate, here are important details (also called “terms and conditions”) for working with Ranee Tomlin through Words for Stories. When you send me a signed Letter of Agreement, you indicate your acceptance of these business details.
However, if we agree to different terms and put them in writing, that agreement document takes precedence over anything on this page. If a specific condition isn’t addressed on that separate agreement, though, the following applies.
Providing a Quotation
I will provide a good-faith quotation of my rates and estimated completion time, based on the information you give me.
If there is an unforeseen complication with your project or if I experience an unexpected personal challenge that prevents me from meeting our agreed-upon work deadline or rate quotation, I will inform you as soon as possible and will stop work while you decide how you wish to proceed.
In providing a quotation for rush work, I'll suggest an alternative completion time or charge extra. If I’m not able to meet your needs, I'll refuse to accept a particular job.
Any request for work beyond the scope of our Letter of Agreement (including extensive edits and revisions) will be negotiated, agreed to, and charged as an additional project, and such extra work will not be performed without arrangement for increased payment and an adjusted deadline.
My Content Boundaries
I embrace freedom of speech and press. I also have a personal comfort level and will not accept work if its content oversteps my boundaries.
In particular, I am not a good fit for writing that involves explicit sexual scenes or erotica, and I choose to avoid working with any material that actively promotes pornography, extremism, smoking, heavy drinking, or illegal drug use.
I am also unable to contribute to material that portrays gratuitous violence or cruelty to humans or to animals.
Thank you for respecting my preferences regarding the type of project content I must avoid.
My Work-Hours Boundaries
Every business owner keeps flexible hours. I'm no exception. I want to serve my clients well, and I know that you need my responsiveness. However, I must take active steps to maintain work-life balance. In addition, another client’s pressing deadline may require my focus to the temporary exclusion of all other distractions, no matter how tempting.
Thank you, then, for understanding that unless we have made special arrangements, I probably will not respond to evening, nighttime, weekend, or holiday messages until Monday–Friday daytime hours (I’m in the US mountain time zone) and may not be immediately available if I’m immersed in a project that demands a period of uninterrupted concentration.
Please realize, though, that I am by nature highly responsive and responsible; and even when enforcing healthy work boundaries, I’m always eager to reply to your queries. Balance requires patience for both of us.
My Responsibilities as a Copyeditor, Writer, Researcher, and Proofreader
The business of words is a subjective endeavor. I will conduct myself with professionalism and respect, and I will do all I can to provide excellent copyediting, writing, research, or proofreading services. However, no copyeditor, writer, researcher, or proofreader is perfect. I cannot guarantee my work will be completely error free despite my best efforts to achieve that impossible and elusive standard.
Payment for Services Rendered
For individuals, small businesses, and new clients, I require 50 percent of my good-faith price quotation as an advance payment before I begin work on your project. On completion, I'll provide an invoice for the balance owed. I accept mailed paper checks, direct deposits, and PayPal.
Unless we've expressly agreed to another arrangement, payment of the entire balance is due within 30 days of invoice date. Payments are nonrefundable.
Impact of Late Payment
If your payment is late, I will advise you of my need to hire a debt-collection agency and will try to provide you time to make your payment before I must use the debt-collection service and add their cost to your bill.
Accepting These Nuts and Bolts (a/k/a/ Terms and Conditions)
When we establish the arrangements for our collaboration, I'll direct you to these Nuts and Bolts and request that you send me a signed Letter of Agreement. Your signed Letter of Agreement indicates your acceptance of all the information provided on this page. It is therefore in your best interests to carefully read these terms and discuss with me any issues or concerns before sending me your signed Letter of Agreement.
Questions?
Please contact me with questions or concerns at [email protected].
Thank you, and I look forward to working with you.
** (With permission, I extensively adapted much of the previous content from LibroEditing’s “Terms & Conditions,” because Liz Dexter covers everything so well.)
However, if we agree to different terms and put them in writing, that agreement document takes precedence over anything on this page. If a specific condition isn’t addressed on that separate agreement, though, the following applies.
Providing a Quotation
I will provide a good-faith quotation of my rates and estimated completion time, based on the information you give me.
If there is an unforeseen complication with your project or if I experience an unexpected personal challenge that prevents me from meeting our agreed-upon work deadline or rate quotation, I will inform you as soon as possible and will stop work while you decide how you wish to proceed.
In providing a quotation for rush work, I'll suggest an alternative completion time or charge extra. If I’m not able to meet your needs, I'll refuse to accept a particular job.
Any request for work beyond the scope of our Letter of Agreement (including extensive edits and revisions) will be negotiated, agreed to, and charged as an additional project, and such extra work will not be performed without arrangement for increased payment and an adjusted deadline.
My Content Boundaries
I embrace freedom of speech and press. I also have a personal comfort level and will not accept work if its content oversteps my boundaries.
In particular, I am not a good fit for writing that involves explicit sexual scenes or erotica, and I choose to avoid working with any material that actively promotes pornography, extremism, smoking, heavy drinking, or illegal drug use.
I am also unable to contribute to material that portrays gratuitous violence or cruelty to humans or to animals.
Thank you for respecting my preferences regarding the type of project content I must avoid.
My Work-Hours Boundaries
Every business owner keeps flexible hours. I'm no exception. I want to serve my clients well, and I know that you need my responsiveness. However, I must take active steps to maintain work-life balance. In addition, another client’s pressing deadline may require my focus to the temporary exclusion of all other distractions, no matter how tempting.
Thank you, then, for understanding that unless we have made special arrangements, I probably will not respond to evening, nighttime, weekend, or holiday messages until Monday–Friday daytime hours (I’m in the US mountain time zone) and may not be immediately available if I’m immersed in a project that demands a period of uninterrupted concentration.
Please realize, though, that I am by nature highly responsive and responsible; and even when enforcing healthy work boundaries, I’m always eager to reply to your queries. Balance requires patience for both of us.
My Responsibilities as a Copyeditor, Writer, Researcher, and Proofreader
The business of words is a subjective endeavor. I will conduct myself with professionalism and respect, and I will do all I can to provide excellent copyediting, writing, research, or proofreading services. However, no copyeditor, writer, researcher, or proofreader is perfect. I cannot guarantee my work will be completely error free despite my best efforts to achieve that impossible and elusive standard.
Payment for Services Rendered
For individuals, small businesses, and new clients, I require 50 percent of my good-faith price quotation as an advance payment before I begin work on your project. On completion, I'll provide an invoice for the balance owed. I accept mailed paper checks, direct deposits, and PayPal.
Unless we've expressly agreed to another arrangement, payment of the entire balance is due within 30 days of invoice date. Payments are nonrefundable.
Impact of Late Payment
If your payment is late, I will advise you of my need to hire a debt-collection agency and will try to provide you time to make your payment before I must use the debt-collection service and add their cost to your bill.
Accepting These Nuts and Bolts (a/k/a/ Terms and Conditions)
When we establish the arrangements for our collaboration, I'll direct you to these Nuts and Bolts and request that you send me a signed Letter of Agreement. Your signed Letter of Agreement indicates your acceptance of all the information provided on this page. It is therefore in your best interests to carefully read these terms and discuss with me any issues or concerns before sending me your signed Letter of Agreement.
Questions?
Please contact me with questions or concerns at [email protected].
Thank you, and I look forward to working with you.
** (With permission, I extensively adapted much of the previous content from LibroEditing’s “Terms & Conditions,” because Liz Dexter covers everything so well.)