A price becomes credible when the client can see the decision behind it.
Creative work often disappears inside an hourly estimate, leaving clients uncertain and studios underpaid. Price Beyond the Clock examines creative fees become easier to defend when outcomes, choices, and risk are made visible before the work begins. It shows readers how to identify the decisions that matter, structure the work around them, and communicate the value without inflated claims. Practical examples help professionals replace improvised habits with a repeatable approach that fits real clients, limited capacity, and changing priorities. The result is a calmer, clearer way to make better commercial choices.
Hollis Parr
A union organizer turned writer who fought for rights firsthand, combining self-help advocacy tools, business ethics on fair labor, and histories of worker uprisings across centuries.
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