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Reply Subj: By helping strengthen neck muscles? Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 at 07:16:18 am EDT | |||||||
Quote: Quote: September? It's being shipped there by brigantine sailing schooner? Or printed on Alpha Centuri? We used to be able to transport bloody convicts over there quicker than that!Quote: I think it's coming round trip via Caph. If it arrives with a green-skinned beauty who wants to do my bidding I will keep her. Just saying. It's the only kind thing to do. Also, that kind ofpromotion would probably help sales. Quote: Okay - well after I get you to sign it, I'll track down that Diller guy to sign it, then I suppose I should also try to track down Sarah to sign it too. Sounds like quite the adventure really. Proceed. Quote: Quote: I've had a Sir Mumphrey novel ready for a final proofread for a year now.Quote: I'm happy to make my proofreading skills available to you for free!  It's not just about spotting the many typos. I also need to make sure the pacing is right, the dialogue isn't too trite, and all the other bits that I hardly ever bother with when I'm posting a Parodyverse story. The last draft tends to bulk up by up to 5% when I do it. Some things get cut out, "missing bits" get put in. Quote: Quote: Alternately, I could go via a literary agent, who would negotiate something for me with a larger publisher; but many agents' contracts now include not only a percentage of book earnings (which is fair) but a percentage of earning from any future use of characters debuting in those books (which is not). I'm reluctant to get into the legal detail that a good deal would entail.Quote: Wow, I had no idea. That does not sound fair at all. The case for it is that launching a brand character should garner the successful agent an ongoing reward. For example, if J.K. Rowling had switched agents after Potter vol 1 then the agent who had managed to place that first book and "establish the franchise" would not benefit from the juggernaut he or she had helped set in motion thereafter. Under the new contracts, he'd have got a slice of all the other books' income, plus movies, merchandising etc. The case against this is that there's a distinction between a recognised creative process with intellectual and legal ownership of the product and an administrative function that expects an ongoing stake in subsequent re-use of concepts that utilised that administration. It's the equivalent of Madonna's first chauffeur wanting a cut of all her albums thereafter. He might have been a brilliant driver in 1982 but... At least that's my take on it. Poster-JJJ and other legal types might have a different and better understanding of it. Quote: You need your own Roni Y Avis style agent. Or not. I need some external help to take this stuff forward, that's for sure, but who and how I don't know. | |||||||
