Freelancer Magazine - The website has landed

Last Thursday saw me grab a lovely hour online with the crew over at Freelancer Magazine, as we met up for our quarterly Team Meeting to discuss the coming issues of the mag.

When you sod off from the employed world to do your freelance thing, you kind of hope that team meetings will be one of the things that gets (and stays) firmly in the bin for your foreseeable future. But as time goes on, you realise that not only can't you always do this self-employed thing alone, but that you don't always want to do it alone, either.

I made a massive deal of it on social media thanks to my excitement, but for those of you who don't know, Lady Sophie of the Cross invited me onto the Freelancer Magazine team around a year ago. We initially met to talk about me being interviewed for an upcoming issue (providing I didn't fuck up the initial call, of course). Our Soph isn't a short-term thinker though, so before we knew it, I was taking on the (wonderful) responsibility of becoming Freelancer Magazine's first regular columnist.

'We were all thinking it... with Jo Watson', is the column you're looking out for in each issue of the magazine should you be - or become - a subscriber. My column is usually right at the back, with Sophie quite rightly strategising that at least if I massively offend people with my ramblings, they've at least already read the rest of the mag and may therefore decide to keep their subscription rather than burn their copy of FM in outrage.

I've not long submitted my fourth article for Freelancer (out quarterly), and as I reflect on the year that's passed, I can't believe I've never written an article about my article on my own site before! So I guess this is what I'm doing right now.

It's a timely piece that you're reading here, as I'm blatantly coinciding it with the fact that the brand new Freelancer Magazine website is launched today! Go click, go subscribe, go enjoy. And then come back. I miss you.

A particular fave page of mine is the one that's all about me, obviously.

Although becoming a columnist has long been an absolute dream of mine for my professional writery life, writing for Freelancer has in truth been quite annoying, actually. No, it's not because on my first ever issue Sophie pulled the plug on a pun, or because she took a whopping six minutes to pay my invoice for the issue that came after that one, but because although I always get such amazing feedback from the readers and the team (and even from Sophie, who I pretty much slag off in every issue thanks to the pun thing), it guts me that I can't just copy and post my mighty fine magazine musings onto my own blog here for you all to read and share with me.

I put everything into those columns, and I want you all to be able to enjoy (or endure) them along with everyone else.

I guess you'll just have to go and subscribe to the magazine then, won't you?