So Highbury House went into receivership. Well I didn’t see that coming (sarcasm). It was obvious that there was no way the company could survive after such mismanagement and a huge mountain of debt. So where does that leave freelancers like me? Without cash, I guess. Again, this post is a heads-up to those googling Highbury House and receivership. Paragon Publishing, the company I wrote for on a regular basis, was a subsidiary of Highbury and has been bought up by Imagine Publishing, which is owned by Paragon’s ex-owner Damien Butt. Whether or not I get anymore work is debatable (and to be honest, I don’t know if I want to chance my arm again. Once bitten, twice shy, etc). The current issue is the loss of earnings from this collapse. I doubt I’ll get the significant sum owed to me. There’s no protection for the likes of me. The problem is the knock-on effect this missing money has. In the summer (and next January), the taxman will come sniffing around and expect me to pay him. Well I can’t at this juncture. With my salary slashed by this crash and work drying up rapidly like watering hole in the Serengheti mid-day sun, I am well and truly stuffed.
Oh well, you got to laugh, ain’t ya?

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