Freelance editing

[lettered]

First of all, apologies to those of you who follow me on various platforms, since I am basically putting this everywhere. I just finished writing my novel (yay!), and while I work on editing and eventually querying some agents, I'm hoping to do some freelance editing work. This makes me an independent contractor (right?), and I'm confused about some of the legal aspects. Does anyone who feels like they understand tax-speak want to talk to me about it for a bit? I've found a bunch of relevant legal info for my state and city, but it'd be nice to talk to someone about some of the terms/issues.

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[lettered]

Thanks!

I do know about upwork and have done a bit of research on it. I didn't know about the other site, but I really don't want to work for a company where I have to find the clients myself. The reasons I'm asking about it though is I'm currently looking at a company that does hire freelancers and sends them projects, and they're actually what made me realize I have to ask some of these questions! They said that if you work for their company you're an independent contractor, and some states require that independent contractors require forms/licenses etc, and that if that is the case for your state you'd better have it worked out before working for them! But yes, a perk of working for such a company is presumably they'd just send me the tax form, which is nice. Thank you for your thoughts!

[magpie_fngrl]

No prob, I wish I could have been more help. Hopefully someone will know more :)

[geneva2010]

Geez, I think that's pretty cavalier of them - they have responsibilities, too!