Disney is attempting to do something really underhanded. Quick background on how things work. Let’s say a hit movie is being released. A writer is hired to write a novelization of it. The movie comes out, the book is published, and then the parent company that produced the film and hired the writer pays royalty
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Acknowledgements and Proof Readers
If you have contributed to BLOOD HEIR by offering Hebrew translations, medical assistance, religious research, etc, please email me through the contact form on the site with your name so we can thank you in the book. Please pick Acknowledgements option. Proofreader Update: Thank you, we’ve received enough applications. No applications sent after 10:00 AM
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Did you press the corpse with your finger?
“I heard you were moving to Maryland and starting a tea farm. 😂” “As I read this I wandered if this post would have been something that Catalina would have posted on her extremely exciting Instagram. 😀 “ Let me tell you what my professional life has been like for the last 4 days. Web searches:
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Flowers and Candy
Avon sent us beautiful flowers. The card reads: Not long ago, Jeaniene Frost also sent me flowers with a card for secret reasons. Here is what that card. Also someone sent us Russian candy. Thank you so much. The candy was delicious! Dear BDH, please do not send candy! We have no self-control. We mean
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Post-Release Brain
To give you an idea of what it’s like to write after the release week. For reasons of COVID and other factors, we have to finish Ryder as fast as possible, so I am not getting the few days off I needed. Here is how bad things are. Nick worried me. Years ago, before Nick
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EMERALD BLAZE To Do List
330 bookplates signed and sent. 250 additional bookplates received and signed. Email with Pam (the publicist). Email with Pam. Email with Pam. Additional 200 bookplates with our own logo signed. Just how many print books did you order, people? Newsletter to publishing list sent. Potential editor for BLOOD HEIR contacted, fingers crossed. Map artist found
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Komer, Kohen, and OMG
Hi! I don’t know if you already know this and you did it on purpose or something, but I’m from Israel and I speak Hebrew as my first language, and I wanted to let you know that in Hebrew komer/kmarim is specifically only a priest of the christian church, and a priest for every other
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Giving Up Before the Finish Line
I’d be interested in your views on the concept of authors giving up on series without completing them. At the end of the day an artist’s work is their own and if they don’t want to write further books in a particular series they don’t have to (unless they are under contract to a publisher
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Work work work
I’ve got this amazingly tone deaf email this morning offering us writing advice on Ryder. Heh. Today is just one of those days. Yesterday Kid 2 moved to Austin in the middle of protests so it was a stressful day. Today the electrician looked at our flood issue and said he can’t do anything until
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Plagiarism and other fun things
I saw this today and thought of your reference to fan fiction recently. Would love your take – is it harder for young writers to get established in a popular genre if the tropes lend themselves to appearing like plagiarism? How does one determine copyright if the ‘original’ fiction was fan fiction to begin with?
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Social Media and Academic Marketing
I was hoping you could help guide me on an academic question. As part of my summer project work with my professor, I am involved in developing a marketing plan for his new book on business management. Your blog has been a wonderful resource to get insights into the publishing world for fiction writers. It
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We Have to Leave the House
We have to go out today on an unavoidable errand, so we are a bit behind on our work. We are half-way through the next Ryder scene so it will posted either tonight or tomorrow morning, so please don’t obsess checking the website. Wish me luck.
