Consulting Sprint Education by Susan Price
I've been too busy this month to come up with a blog, so here's The badge of the RLF some notes on what I've been up to. I've mentioned before how I trained with the Royal Literary Fund to become one of their accredited consultants. Well, I decided that I'd better do something with the accreditation. Long ago, when I first started earning a living as a writer, I made more money by going into schools and talking about what I did, than I did from actually selling my writing. I've continued to make part of my income from school visits ever since, but gradually the writing income overtook the school income... but since the recession both have fallen off sharply. As, I think, almost everyone posting here has found too. I decided to do something about this. I needed income but, obviously, it was no longer sufficient to wait for schools to seek me out. I had to go out and grab them by the lapels, even if only metaphorically. Sprint Education So I gri...