Choose. Between 36 book covers.
Tell me what you like and don’t like about them. Top three? Bottom three.
Last night, around the time I stopped having fun was when giving thinking on an author’s marketing decisions and then defending it against the input of other people who are not in the publicity or publishing business.
While I think layman’s opinions and outside thinking are so very important, it grinds me when my downtime turns into doing work. It’s something I can accept when the request is in-bound as an e-mail. Not when it’s in-person.
I don’t think work-life balance really exists, although downtime has got to be downtime or else you’re always going to feel like you’re under fire.
The way to manage these kinds of situations, I think, is to make sure clients know you’re always available, and that office hours are office hours. Work that has to be done after hours is called an emergency and it will show up on their monthly invoice in the form of an emergency.
Crisis PR is costly because bad behavior is, too. So is letting people step over your boundaries.
