* Leave a job and contact you from the next one – with assignments and higher per-word rate.

* Tell you they’re reining in freelance budgets due to the economy but are keeping you on their freelance short list.

* Reward one fast-turnaround assignment with two more – in as many weeks.

* Freelance for multiple publications and reject a pitch for one magazine but decide it’d be great for another.

* Understand times are tough and work out deals with their own bosses to assign you a set amount of work per month.

* Are working on a new publication launch and ask you to write the cover, if and when the time comes.

* Tell you to pick up the phone and call them if you have questions.

* Pick up the phone and call you if they have questions.

* Say they’ll write a recommendation for you on LinkedIn and write it the same day.

Today’s reruns: Make yourself so irresistible editors will fight over you.

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True confessions – Do you tell editors what you do when you’re not working for them?

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