WRITING ON THE EDGE - The Ups and Downs of a Freelance Career

I was a freelance writer. So were Hemingway, Shakespeare and many others. I lived wholly from my writing. I wrote magazine articles and stories. I wrote 28 books. Always I demanded the highest fees I could get, becoming in the end what counts as a rich writer, and further on in this memoir I talk a good deal about contracts, advances, money. Most writers spend most of their lives locked in small rooms typing, and they don’t get paid very much. I refused to live like that. Throughout I have ...