Firearms, shooting or tactics assistance.

Thanks for the offer, WAPS! I personally don't need the help, since I write hunting and gun technical articles, but I know a lot of writers who can use this type of assistance. What do you plan to charge per hour to answer questions?

Thanks! Well, usually they're one shot questions, like "how many bullets can a Taurus .38 shoot?" but sometimes they get trickier. For example, on one loop I belong to, an author was writing a vampire novel where the heroine bought regular off-the-shelf bullets. She wanted to find an element that would be contained in a bullet that the vampire could be affected by for the very first time, even after having lived for centuries. Of course, that got into metallurgy issues and some trade secrets of bullet manufacturers, and then even into biology (such as if he was allergic to copper, why wouldn't blood bother him, which contains trace elements?)


The trick to answering the questions of authors, I've found, is to narrow the scope, rather than just answer outright (except in the case of the cylinder sort of question, like above.)

But I'll be happy to pass along your name in a few places. Just know that you're competing with several FREE police chatrooms where they often answer author questions like this. The $25-35 range is more likely to interest someone, but they'll expect a full hour of answers for the money. Writers are notoriously cheap. LOL!