On another board, I responded to a post to edit and format for print a business-subject book. My default artist, who also does book formatting, and I teamed on it. Without surprise, we won. Exploring a fit resulted in learning that his target audience was owners of $5M+/yr companies, who won't read long treatises. My artist and I can do this one in our sleep.
The client's first action was to send us 30 multi-MB image files from his pdf draft. Next was to do nothing with a draft I sent him. Third was a conference call saying he didn't want any of the 30 images used, and the draft was unacceptable. He expected me to triple the content.
I've colored him gone. I messaged him that tripling content wasn't an edit, it wasn't even a rrewrite. It was ghost-writing. The content included sixteen licensed photos (watermarked); tripling content would likely be 48 licenses, at $5 to $25 each. We had started the job without escrow being funded; I told him to fund the first milestone and we would get back to work. We would triple content, add several hundred dollars in license costs, format the book, but it would be a few months. I can't ghost-write his book in the six hours I had budgeted for an edit.
Anybody have similar stories?
