The Story
It started in 2017.
Amanda Jones (author of Diary of a Freelancer if you hadn’t caught that already) had been freelancing as a creative director turned film maker for a couple of years and to be honest, she was kicking career goals. Booking international clients and travelling the world. Best of all she was doing it with kindness and at her own pace, against the grain of the toxic creative culture of the industry she was educated in. Before this point Amanda had come out of a fairly prestigious fashion internship, only to find a burn out culture that actually just felt like a lot of dead ends. So when she finally decided to take the freelance plunge, determination to keep this kind of toxic culture out of her own creative work was at an all time high. When the kindness approach actually worked (yes, even from a business perspective!) and she found herself in aforementioned living of dreams, well it felt a lot like cracking the code of life.
That’s when the words arrived.
Thoughts clicked into aphorisms that spilled into scribbles.
“I was writing to the voice in my head that was saying, it can’t be this kind and lovely, it needs to be mean and cranky and stressful in order for it to be professional or meaningful.”
After a few years of learning the self-publishing process, sourcing the best print artisans and perfect recycled paper stock ‘Diary of a Freelancer’ arrived.
300 pages of unfiltered words + textures
100% recycled paper, including the cover
Printed locally + ethically on the Northern Beaches of Sydney
300 pages of unfiltered words + textures 100% recycled paper, including the cover Printed locally + ethically on the Northern Beaches of Sydney
Regularly restocked on the shelves of sweet vendors in Bellingen, Byron Bay, Manly, Freshwater, South Aus, Murwillumbah, Sunshine coast.
Whether your path is anything like Amanda's or from a different galaxy, Diary of a Freelancer has one job - to cheer you on in living your dreams. To encourage you in your trailblazing and give you laughter, or at least a little chuckle.
With a readership that extends to 232 cities across the world. Including Scotland, Toronto, Athens, Zurich, New York, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Croatia, London, Los Angeles, Berlin.
‘Diary of a Freelancer’ is ethically printed on 100% recycled paper, right here in our neighbourhood by local print artisans. Each copy comes with it’s own cotton muslin drawstring duster.
For anyone who is living their dreams in any way, 'Diary of a Freelancer' is a refreshingly left of centre take on work and life. Amanda’s off beat aphorisms have a wealth of real life experience behind them. With chapter titles such as ‘Rest’, ‘Rush’ and ‘Boredom’ you can be sure D—F will be a balm to the soul and a companion for big dreaming. 300 pages of unfiltered words and textures — made of 100% recycled, uncoated paper including the cover. Treasure her soft pages, be brave enough to add your own fingerprints.
