North Carolina artist sounds off

Here's one of my favorite posts in response to my blog entry, "Are Boston writers undervalued, underpaid?":

It's not just writers, it's artists, too. I've given up freelancing.

Clients—whose success is largely built on my designs—invariably get too big for their britches. The better they do, the worse they treat the person who was such an integral part of their success.

You'd think that skyrocketing sales, attention from national distributors, would indicate that something is being done more than right, and they'd recognize that and value it.

Not so. The better they do, the more important they think they are, the less important they think you are. Suddenly, you're having to nag to get paid (because now they're doing YOU a favor by letting you work on their projects).

I'm sick of it. I'd rather go back to corporate and let some poor account manager deal with the clients so I can just do art.

Click here to go to her blog.

Editor's Note: It's been several months and I haven't been paid for my work for Not For Tourists Boston. I've tried several times to demand my check and they've pretty much ignored me. For the record, Not For Tourists is not for writers. They use you for your content and refuse to pay you.