Always Check This Clause in Your Freelance Writing Contracts

Left unnegotiated, kill fees can dig a freelancer’s grave

Madelyn Brown
The Writing Cooperative
8 min readOct 24, 2020

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My first kill fee was pretty fatal. It happened after I wrote a story for a major national print magazine. When I say major, I mean this would be my biggest byline (at the time) ever.

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