Maren ran studio operations for eleven years before trading spreadsheets for sentences.
She has priced everything from wedding invitations to wayfinding systems, survived three recessions with the same practice intact, and keeps a legendary ledger of every estimate-versus-actual she has ever written. Her column turns that ledger into guidance working creatives can use on Monday morning.
She writes about deposits, buffers, budgets and the quiet confidence of knowing your numbers — always in plain language, never in jargon.
Beat
Finance — pricing, cash flow, budgets
On the Gazette
2 stories · Writing since 2021
Elsewhere
Workshops for freelancer cooperatives each spring.
Stories by Maren
The Harbor Handbook: a compact guide to running calmer creative projects
