Wednesday January 13, 2021

Prototype of Leaning Mug. designed and decorated by Weston Neil Andersen Photo and editing by Mackenzie Andersen

A Proposal Gets A Positive Response

In Starting a Remote Work Career from Scratch, I made a proposal to Humanities and Social Science Communications and asked if they would waive the very large fee for publishing a paper in consideration of the fact that I reviewed a paper at their request, without charging them.

As it happened that was a good move. At first I was given the brush off and a link to the page listing the very large fees. I responded that it is beyond my means and forgot about it until yesterday when I received a different response from an assistant editor in London which includes the contact information to apply for a waiver and the next day I was asked, by a different office to review another paper, which I accepted.

The new paper to review is quite different from the last which was an economic development paper from South America. This one is a philosophical pap…