Hey, while I'm looking at freelance stuff today, book illustration work, anyone?
[edit: reedsy also needs: editors, ghostwriters, translators, designers, and marketers; some of those positions need prior published work]

Not an illustrator here but huh they mention translators so I will try to see if they mention that in other postings, thank you!!

!! am a book illustrator, will check this out

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Be Maki-Mine 💘 :

Reedsy

idk what languages you translate but they're looking for German, Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese

I translate Japanese to English oh well but thank you! This is still good knowledge for site formats and stuff
Networking Is Hard

some of their listings require previous published experience/experience with a traditional publisher (which is why I'm not editing for them, alas) but i spotted that illustration didn't, which is why i linked here (also bc i know some people are pretty awesome artists)

Be Maki-Mine 💘 : NETWORKING IS SO HARD. hmmmm i can ask one of my friends though! she localizes for a visual novel company

(anyone reading down: i'm happy to list more freelance stuff if people would like!

....also anyone reading down: if you self publish and want a proofreader/copy editor/developmental editor/worldbuilder/whatever stage you're in for free. uh. hit me up, it's hard to get work without being able to list published books.)

I really got one of my first really good prior experiences on my resume but finding time to seek and network for that second one has been a real struggle

I recently got

it's TOUGH, man, especially in niche fields. which i mean. translator isn't TECHNICALLY niche, but it's....not NOT niche

i've been looking at a lot of stuff recently. had a crying breakdown this morning before a scheduled interview about how i was moving backwards etc etc and we figured out that the role i was taking would pay the same as me working freelance at the couple of gigs I do if I did them full time, which i hadn't been letting myself do bc, y'know, job hunting

so, i'm slowly trying to look at more things-i-want-to-do while also doing things that actually pay the bills (cannot recommend dataannotation.tech and similar places more highly. play your skills up like a lunatic on the app and you'll get right through. customized a dw layout = "designed and formatted site html" etc. they're just having people grade AI.