The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.