@davidhohn Yes, ive talked with a lot of self publishing artist who inquire about illustrating their books. It usually fizzles out, either when I read a manuscript and decline to illustrate it or when I give them a quote. I’ve only ended up working with one self publishing author so far, but do do freelance illustration for odds and ends, and always do contracts for those. Thanks for your insight, if the manuscript is something I’d be interested in doing, I might discuss fees for the full book first, to see if she is serious enough, before even doing character sketches. Might end up saving both of us time in the long run. And if she wants to go ahead, then I’ll draw up a small contact for the character sketches, with the fee going towards the book fee if she wants to continue with it.
I’ve got an older edition of the handbook that I regularly use, but you’re right I should probably update to the new edition.
That was super helpful David! Thanks so much for taking the time to reply to me. 😊