Year-End Tasks

These little steps add up.

This time of year, the publishing business pauses. As people take vacations, offices operate with a skeleton staff. Until the start of the year, don’t expect any decisions.

But for freelancers, these weeks can prove essential — both to finish the old year well and to give the new one a solid start.

For me, they are weeks to accomplish vital, if … Continue reading

Cleaning Up After Christmas

by Andy Scheer

Was your every expectation met?

I love Christmas cards — especially ones that show a picture-perfect Holy Family under an astronomically impossible star. Or ones with scrubbed shepherds and freshly groomed sheep.

The first Christmas came with amazing expectations—courtesy of ancient prophecy and angelic announcements.

But the reality was a bit gritty: someone … Continue reading