Career.fork() - How To Thrive As A Freelance Developer

My question about books like this is always 'If you are doing so well at what you're writing a book about, why are you wasting the time writing a book about it?'<p>Surely you don't expect that your time spent writing a book is going to pay out at $300 an hour, or whatever your consulting rates are.

Pay-what-you-want with a high minimum price gives me conflicted feelings. What I read is "this book costs $11.99, but you can give me more money if you want!".

Steve, this is great! As somebody who's a week or two away from releasing a book on pricing for freelancers (<a href="http://doubleyourfreelancingrate.com" rel="nofollow">http://doubleyourfreelancingrate.com</a>) I'd love to compare notes sometime.<p>Buying now. I'm especially interested in the "Oiling the wheels" section.

Can we get it free then pay you back double once the advice starts to work? Call it an investment...

Why link to an ad for a book instead of an article that would add value, and maybe point to the book at the end?

I purchased this book and read it today. I think it's a nice collection of advice for the budding freelancer. It's a little light on the legal aspects such as business structure, taxes and contracts. I would consider it a beginner's book on freelancing.<p>For a little more depth on the business side of freelancing, I strongly recommend the following book: <i>Working for Yourself: Law &#38; Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers &#38; Consultants</i>, by Stephen Fishman J.D.

This seems like a very interesting book. How relevant is it for people starting consulting businesses, i.e. not solo freelancers but rather freelance companies?<p>I'm talking about questions like: how to allocate the different people to different tasks, how/when to hire employees, hiring on-site employees vs. hiring freelancers who work from home (potentially form elance or similar), etc. Does this book get into any of these topics at all?

This looks good. But it wasn't clear to me that the author is talking about the UK (primarily? exclusively) without reading a fair amount of the page.

Does anyone own this book? I am actually thinking of going the Freelance way and am looking for a good overview of the outcomes and challenges. I feel a bit lost with all the various information that I have read on the Internet, so am looking for something I can trust and that reflect the reality of freelancing well.

No free chapter?

The hard part is finding good clients who have lots of money. How do you do that?

I bought and read the book. It is a good overview of many aspects on freelancing work. Being a freelancer myself most of the stuff i knew, experienced it or read elsewhere, so nothing ground-breaking. However it's a good compilation of all the advice out there. Recommended

Just bought it. As a new full time freelancer, I really appreciate your effort to take time and write this book. Thanks.

Where's the coupon code for HN :) I'd suggest doing this and then having a link to your PayPal if we feel it was worth more.

Object.fork ? is there any environment in which that even attempts to make sense?<p>Fork is a system call.