Update - Advice on work-for-hire rates

[Mark Prebilic <prebson -at- ROCKETMAIL -dot- COM>]

I guess I should have mentioned that this is technical writing for a
computer book.  It is for a version upgrade of a database management
system.  I have lots of knowledge of the old version, but very little
of the new version.  The publisher is supplying me with the new
version.

---Mark Prebilic <prebson -at- rocketmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> I have recently been accepted to do some writing for a major
> publisher, and since I have not been published before, I wanted to
get
> some input on the rates I'm being offered.  I will be paid $12.00 per
> page for 333 pages, of which about 1/2 will be revisions of existing
> material, 1/2 will be brand new material.  Is this a reasonable
amount
> to be paid, considering I am an unpublished author?  Also, I am being
> asked to produce 30 pages per week for the new material, 60 for the
> revisions. Is that pretty much a standard volume of work?  Any advice
> or comments are welcome.  Thanks.

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