Thats fantastic news, congrats.

Congratulations Leif!!!!!!
*kiss. kiss.*

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Special thanks to ....Crackerjillian for impulsively proofing my writing sample and helping me cut 300 words.

If by helping you mean saying "Cut 300 words from that??? Dude, it sucks to be you" then by all means, you're welcome.

Again, congrats. Now get all rich and hire me as your assistant. I'm organized, efficient and only whiney sometimes. Besides, I can navigate a wine list.

(I use that icon a lot with regards to our God of Thunder.)

Congrats!!

Jet

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Well, obviously I was fishing for a little recognition when I started this thread, but this is starting to get embarrassing! Thank you all!

For those interested, I have been pouring over about 100 documents that I acquired with my new access to the LP ftp server and you know what? Guidebook writing is hard! The document on LP house style alone is going to take me a week to absorb! I’m starting to realize that after the travel, research, writing, fact checking, formatting, map mark-ups and careful adherence to house style, I’ll be making about seven cents an hour. The bragging rights for this gig had better damn well be worth it!

One of these days I’m going to have to try my luck in a hard-to-penetrate industry that actually pays well. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it?

late to the party, but congratulations none the less!!!
romania!
crazy, man.
or possibly crazy man.

UPDATE

Well, after lulling me into a false sense of security by suggesting that my first project would be a small one, LP dropped a bomb on me with duties to update/rewrite the Romania and Moldova chapters in three of their guidebooks (“Romania & Moldova 4,” “Eastern Europe 9” and “Europe on a Shoestring 5”). While Romania is more or less my second home now and I can write with authority on most aspects, I don’t have the faintest idea about neighboring Moldova (other than they snared fourth in this years Eurovision Song Contest). Fortunately for me, 90% of Moldova speaks Romanian (my Romanian skills are still caveman-like, but coming along quickly), which is probably the main reason LP bundled these countries together, in addition to geography and a close-knit history…

I have to put in some time in December reviewing and preparing the draft title briefs for each book (whatever those are) and I’ll be hitting the streets and writing February through May. The books will be published in February and May of 2007. I’m equally thrilled and terrified of doing this giant project right out of the gate, not to mention my fickle attention span is going to be put to the ultimate test. I’ll probably spend more time trying to learn LP’s processes and house style than actually writing.

I know many of you are dying to know about pay/benefits. All I can say is that pay is fair for someone with a mortgage and a car, who needs to shell out for an international plane ticket to get to the destination. However, in my case, with my worldly possessions comprising of two bags and me already being on site here in Romania, this is going to ultimately be a HUGE payday for me. Word. Other benefits include business cards (I ordered the maximum amount, because God knows the groupies will be grabbing them by the fistful), heath insurance (while under contract) and discounts on LP books. Yippie!

That’s about all I can say without getting into trouble. Wish me luck.

YE-HAW!!!! SO HAPPY FOR YOU! Seriously, that's great. You've definitely earned it. Congrats again.

awesome Leif! Yes, you've definitely earned it -- best of luck and look forward to future updates.

Aaaah cripes. So now do we have to pretend to respect you, Leif?

Serious congrats.

VERY cool Leif! Hearty congrats.....

That sounds splendid! Congratulations!!!

Hey Leif, HUGE congrats.

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Originally posted by Leif, God of Thunder:
Well, after lulling me into a false sense of security by suggesting that my first project would be a small one, LP dropped a bomb on me with duties to update/rewrite the Romania and Moldova chapters in three of their guidebooks

Sounds like they're very confident in your abilities. Well done!