RE: Thomas Riggs & Company Invoicing

Please scan and e-mail or send via regular mail.

Thanks,
Jonathan Levine
Project Editor
Thomas Riggs & Company
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From: Barrett Brown [barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:14 PM
To: Jonathan Levine
Subject: Re: Thomas Riggs & Company Invoicing

Hi, Jonathan-

I'm going to send over the contract in a bit; can you give me the fax number over there?

Thanks,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Jonathan Levine <jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net<mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net>> wrote:
Just wanted to welcome you to Thomas Riggs & Company and to send you information on getting paid!

We make payments twice a month via direct deposit.
The payment dates are the 15th and the 30th/31st.
If any of the dates falls on a weekend, the payment date is the previous business day.

We need invoices 5 business days in advance. So, for instance, for payment January 15, we need invoices by the end of business Thursday, January 8.
Invoices should include your name, address, social security number, the topic names, and the amount.
I apologize if all this seems really obvious, but you'd be surprised 

Please fill out the attached documents and either scan and e-mail or snail mail them to the address below.
Feel free to contact me with questions about invoicing or anything else.

Send all paperwork and invoices to the following:

Mariko Fujinaka
Managing Editor, Thomas Riggs & Company
mariko.fujinaka@thomasriggs.net<mailto:mariko.fujinaka@thomasriggs.net>
6724 SE Morrison St
Portland OR 97215
(503) 255-4568

Thank you,
Jonathan Levine



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From: Barrett Brown [barriticus@gmail.com<mailto:barriticus@gmail.com>]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:58 PM
To: Jonathan Levine
Subject: Re: City Guide Writer

Jonathan-

I've received your last e-mail and will return the completed assignment to you by Friday. Should I go ahead and send you back the contract or did you have any further instructions regarding that?

Thanks,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Jonathan Levine <jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net<mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net><mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net<mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net>>> wrote:
Barrett,

Your list of 12 cities is below. Please confirm that you have received and reviewed this e-mail.
Upon satisfactory completion, 12 more cities will be assigned to you.

Please name each Word doc as follows:
CityName_BBrown.doc

The first twelve essays are due by this Friday, January 9th.
Please submit them to this e-mail address as you complete them, rather than all at once.
And please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions you may have along the way.

State          City
VA              Suffolk
VA              Vienna
VA              Virginia Beach
VA              Williamsburg
VA              Winchester
VA              Woodbridge
WV             Beckley
WV             Charleston
WV             Huntington
WV             Morgantown
WV             Parkersburg
WV             Wheeling

Best regards,
Jonathan Levine
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From: Barrett Brown [barriticus@gmail.com<mailto:barriticus@gmail.com><mailto:barriticus@gmail.com<mailto:barriticus@gmail.com>>]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:37 PM
To: Jonathan Levine
Subject: Re: City Guide Writer

Hi, Jonathan-

I'm originally from Texas, but have also lived in Los Angeles and New York. I'm most familiar with the southwest.

Thanks,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Jonathan Levine <jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net<mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net><mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net<mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net>><mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net<mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net><mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net<mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net>>>> wrote:
Barrett,

Welcome aboard. Attached you will find the guidelines for essays as well as a contract for the project.
Specific payment information and details will follow as will instruction for submitting the completed contract, which can be scanned and e-mailed, faxed, or sent via snail-mail.

In assigning the essays, I like to ask, where are you from originally and is there a particular part of the country you know best?

Best Regards,
Jonathan Levine

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Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:15 PM
To: Jonathan Levine
Subject: Re: City Guide Writer

Yes, I am interested.



Danielle

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Jonathan Levine <jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net<mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net><mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net<mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net>><mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net<mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net><mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net<mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net>>><mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net<mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net><mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net<mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net>><mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net<mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net><mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net<mailto:jonathan.levine@thomasriggs.net>>>>> wrote:
Hi Danielle,

Thanks for responding to my post. I am editing city-guide content and I am looking for writers who can work well and fast over the next two weeks.

Attached are two sample essays. As you will see, the essay itself is modest in its goals. It gives basic information about the city. A writer is expected to spend about a half hour researching the topic on the Internet and another hour and a half writing the essay. I am looking for people who can produce 4-5 essays per day.

The plan is to assign 32 cites to each writer with staggered milestone due-dates sprinkled throughout the next two weeks.
The pay is $42. each. The total is $1,512.
You'd be paid by direct-deposit, or if you prefer, by check, every two weeks, which in this case would be two weeks from your start date.

Our business, Thomas Riggs & Company, has been around since 1995. We focus on academic and reference books and more recently on electronic publishing products. We currently have long-term contracts with two publishers, Gale (Cengage) of Farmington Hills, Michigan, and Chadwyck-Healey (Proquest) of Cambridge, England. Among our ongoing products are biographies on writers, study guides of literary works, an anthology of nineteenth-century literary criticism, and a directory of information on actors. The web essays are for Gale.

If this is of interest to you, I can send you a contract, a sample formula for the essays, and then assign you your first group of US cities.


Best regards,
Jonathan Levine